Tim Ryerson Poet Couplet

Queen of the Hollywood Screen

Pick a ‘Cause’ and then lecture the press
On why this ole world’s such a mess
With a high school drop-out degree
‘So what? I’m a STAR! I’m just… ME”

Oh the charities your slick agent books
How bout giving when nobody looks?
Slip five thousand in cash for a start
In that can at your local Wal-Mart
THAT'S right, you don’t shop there! My-my
(“Oh, they abuse their workers that’s why”)

Feed that starving, unfortunate child!
Who grovels in the African wild
“Um, that’s why I’m so pale and so thin
I SOOOH much identify with him”

"SO sorry, gotta go, here’s a wink
Got a date to go scream at my shrink”…

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Carol Eastman May 3, 2014 at 12:23 PM Definitely a fun one to read... Yep, where's the humility in what they do? I think they're way to into the ME. Tim Ryerson May 4, 2014 at 1:25 PM Thank you my dear friend for your kind and encouraging comments... I owe you a few of my own...

Andrea Dietrich April 29, 2014 at 6:32 PM wowow, t his is GREAT. Hey, why don't you rewrite this to be a miltonic sonnet . I bet if you tried really hard you could do it!! This is so close to being a sonnet already, tim!! At first I thought maybe this was Oprah until I read the "pale and thin" part. hahaha.

Andrea Dietrich April 29, 2014 at 6:27 PM tim, I sure enjoyed your comment on my poem today. Let me read this one now!!

Poet Destroyer A April 28, 2014 at 12:03 PM LOL, hope the date goes well, you will blow her mind :) Tim, WHERE IZ YOU?.... hope you are fine... XOX..Linda

Carrie Richards April 25, 2014 at 9:06 AM You hold back nothing......the true nitty-gritty headlines may seem impressive to those blinded by fame and glamor......but charity and humility count when no one is looking. Yep....you nailed it !

Cyndi Macmillan April 24, 2014 at 4:50 PM Love it! Well said. I heard that there is a small Ming bowl that recently sold for 36 million dollars... http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2014/04/08/the-36-million-ming-dynasty-era-bowl/ and I wondered about the person who purchased it. Did they give a billion to hungry children? Hospitals? The homeless? Will they just put that bowl up in a cupboard? Sickening. You captured this well in your poem... I have sent you email. Sorry. I feel asleep in my girls bed last night! ARGH! Cyndi

Eileen Manassian April 22, 2014 at 8:49 AM So much truth in this, Tim. You surely see with a clearer vision than most. :) Hugs