Best Out Of Date Poems
Out Of Date Lean Cuisine Or New Years Resolution Gone Sour
Toss out
I shout
Smoking a cigarette, how stupid was that
Suckered in like so many, smoked pack after pack
Weird!!! Made us choke
Sucking in smoke
How ridiculous was that, common sense we lacked
Flesh is subtle…vulnerable…
All scarlet-covered, under skin;
The thin, hard smile of the harlot
Tells how many have stormed in.
We are spoon-fed careful lies,
As they rewrite history, quash dissent,
Say Oswald killed The President…
Explode our towers before our eyes
Wage wars and choke off Liberty…
I cannot breathe…as you receive…
Their lies as if from God Himself…
As you stagger on, beneath the load
They, greedy, place on you, I groan.
One by one and two by two,
Truth is what they give to you…
Then a whisper -- what comes near
Floating in the atmosphere?
As a knife-edged threat is made,
So we cower, made afraid.
One by one and two by two,
Truth is what they want it to…
When they took your children away
To fight the wars they lied to wage,
You saluted the Flag, and silently
Gave up Freedom -- for Freedom’s Sake--
One by one and two by two,
Truth is what they tell you to…
When they come and handcuff you
Because you finally saw the truth
---Those Politicos playing for keeps-- who won---
They’ll slit your throat, and just move on.
One by one and two by two
What will you do,
when they come for you?
Dare a sinner aspire to saint?
(Even though It’s Out of Date?)
Armor my heart and melt the jewels
of your attention into a sword for me,
O God, that I might dare to be
Brave for truth, O Majesty!
One by one and two by two,
Truth is what can make us new…
JVB June 11, 1992 10:00 pm
I have 20,080 magazines and 400 books.
Each sadly out of date as soon as a reader takes a good look.
My house is full of them, in disturbing crannies and armchair crooks.
Spider webs are hanging off some near the ceiling, like grappling hooks.
I would let you come around and go through them, take a giant courtesy look
But I'm embarrassed by the multitude of out-of-date magazines and books.
The adage, 'Men work
from sun to sun, and women
work is never done.'
Date 09/07/2019
Programing a VCR and other terrors
In the old days
I used to dread
the chore
of programing my VCR
just never got the hang
of doing that
the VCR sat there
taunting me
begging me
to do it
to her
but I just never could
learn how to program
that damn machine
Na/GloPOWR/Mo prompt Day 18