GROWING YEAR BY FEAR
By one I was done
I didn’t know what to do at two
Believe me, I was far from free at three
Four was a bore
I didn’t wish to survive at five
I was always sick at six
I was ready for heaven at seven
I learned how to astronomically hate at eight
Then at nine I took to wine
I was repulsed by most men at ten
I learned there is a Hell and a Heaven at eleven
Into my life no one cared to delve at 12
ain’t much I hadn’t seen by thirteen
Times I didn’t cause havoc were lean at fourteen
The universe turned mean at fifteen
And I was mentally sick at sixteen
I O.D.’d and it was Heaven I swear to have seen at seventeen
At eight I was finally set free and ran with every degenerate denigrated by disgust and
dehydration the rich chose to ignore
And at nineteen….well, need I say more?
© 2011.…Phreepoetree
Whatever!
~In the middle of the night,
In the broad of daylight,
Two female dead men soldiers got up to fight,
Back to back they were face to face,
They drew their swords and shot each other,
They smiled a beautiful ugly frown,
Laying down they marched around~
~They lived on the earth dead,
Being in heaven in hell they said,
Overjoyed in heaven in hell in dread,
Pete and Fred in heaven in hell was fed,
The hell of the joy of Pete and Fred~
~These two lovers living in heaven, on the earth were dead,
Living in the heaven of hell was Susan and Fred,
Overjoyed in heaven in hell in dread,
Susan and Fred in heaven in hell was fed,
This story is about the hell of the joy Susan and Fred
Pete and Fred were two lovers living although they were dead
Pete was Susan, Susan was Fred????~
For contest: Oxymoronia
For and in honor of Kristen Bruni
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