Like Frankenstein

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Wrote this before I retired. It makes me miss the classroom a teeny tiny microscopic bit.

somewhere smothered
under the glaring white 
lies my summer

you know

the three reasons 
I teach

June
July 
and 
August

and it's just
January

so.....
i've come to believe
just as much as Persiphone's return from Hades,
or Promethus's Fire,

it's my dreams
that melt the snow

we will read Frankenstein in February
while I'm on Cabelas
filling a cart with fishing tackle 
hammered nickle, brass,
or chartreuse cowbells?
brown or brookie rapalas?
hell just buy 'em all...,
a little lighter action fly rod would be nice too
for those days I'm up to my waist in cold river
spare pair of waders and--
Dr. Frankenstein's search for the Elixr of Life?
... duh.... 
alienation rejection by our creator and society
really...
we don't need no stinking creator, 
we don't need no stinking society 
we don't need no EDUCATION

Huckleberry, give that monster a fishing pole
problem solved

responsibility you say? .... to society..  to friends ... to family
oh my god....
                       I could really use a new boat... 
or at least a new motor
hmmmmmm......

nature... oh sweet mother of mine
freedom..... 
I'll be responsible to her... and only her
I hear Alice Cooper 
sing'n 
school's out for summer...

... somewhere... out there...summer
on that ice
with that monster... and I'm chasing it
like Frankenstein

Copyright © | Year Posted 2022



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Date: 8/1/2025 1:44:00 PM
I absolutely love this poem. Wild but beautiful How I like my poetry !! Thanks for sharing Gabby.
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Date: 8/1/2025 7:51:00 AM
fishing and Frankenstine who would have thought? Well, I'm reading someones dream. It's not that they're creative it's just their interpetation. And the famous line "We don't need no stinking badges" just added to it. What? I don't know,
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Date: 8/2/2025 7:16:00 AM
Me, neither. Thanks!
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