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Phorget My Offer, It Would Be Easier To Teach Third Graders Than You Third Rate Poets
i WONDER IF I SHOULD WANDER THE WOODS
I’m talking to you about a young white boy wandering bad neighborhoods
You never warned me about the wolves in the woods
You simply walked me to the middle and you left without a word and
You didn’t tell me how to wage a war without armaments, or an army not to harm me
So there I was to either waste away or war with the weather
Storms and torrential downpours are just something to beat
yet it’s destruction and death I’m forced to defeat
or battle back in the bleakness of horrid heat
To win over the phrightening and phrigid phiascoes i phace
the rain with its virgin drops and ungodly wind
And it ain’t going to do me no good to start having contrition now because it's evident i've sinned
You never phorecasted a phorest philled with phiends and phear
You stealthily took off and left me there
Alone again to find a way to find what I need most
A forest in which I had to fend for myself
And defend myself
I looked out for snakes that slither the city sidewalks hawking their wares
The ones like me with needles and need
You didn’t tutor me on how to feed myself or find shelter because money is a thing of the past
Since every vagrant penny goes up and in my arm
You didn’t explain how easily my physical being could meet Hell or come to harm
Walking into a trap because the man says he’s got that which I am there to buy
Then he puts a gun to my head the minute he closes the door
And the money that was supposed to buy me peace becomes no more
The woods, the phorest, the darkest avenues of avid scum out to avenge something or someone
because in the woods there are a lot of hungry people
and others who can live on revenge alone for what someone else has done
And in the phorest there are varied types of phuit growing on trees that tremble for my trouble
But not one tree opted to shade me from the sun or not to be withered by the wind
And the birds of prey that come in packs praying that death be mine
You never told me about the darkness with a tunnel baring no exit of any kind
For we were none so blind
You left me here with society’s victims who all wanted the same thing
A way to wage a war, a way to weather a storm, some hope and thirteen bags of dope a day
When you put that first needle in my arm you knew it was a scary slope and that I would conquer or fall
Yet and still you thought I knew it all
Doing what needs to be done and done for good
However here I am again, still searching for powdered peace in a bad neighborhood
© 2011.….~free cee!~
Copyright © Jeffry Cohan | Year Posted 2011
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