Notes About The Poem

Since children started playing violent video games these are the types of stories we see now many times in school.

You Are Dead Stupid

Some weird stranger came up behind me
with a machete and lopped off my head
It rolled away,
down an embankment,
landing in a ditch of wet soggy leaves.
It was cackling that crazy laugh I have when I am nervous,
 not realizing it was dead.
 
I ran after it, and plopped it back into place,
but it had lost some neck muscles, and it fell off again.
I chased it as it tumbled across the highway,
missing a black truck by inches. The weird stranger
was running in the other direction now.
I could not see him go. My eyes were gone.
 
My soggy angry head was yelling at me now.
“You are dead stupid!”
This made me mad, so
I kicked it into the back forty.
Then I stomped back up the
hill, determined to catch and
kick the weird stranger. 
I will teach him for making
me dead.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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Muthiani Avatar
January 22, 2019 at 3:12 PM
So true Caren, it's worrying how every kid now wants to be the bad guy just like in the video games.
Krutsinger Avatar
January 22, 2019 at 3:15 PM
It is worrisome. It used to be that they wanted to be the cops,now they know the police are the targets, so they want to be the bad guys. They are also taught to point guns at humans in these video games. We were never taught that before.
Kiser Avatar
January 18, 2019 at 12:29 PM
Yep, I also see a lot of kids doing that karate thing all over parks, stores, etc. It looks like they're all having some sort of fit. What ever happened to jacks, jump ropes, slinky, Super ball and super hero comics?
Krutsinger Avatar
January 18, 2019 at 2:38 PM
Those are all BOOOOORRRRIIIIINNNNNGGGG. We are all about killing now and stealing cars in the video realm.
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