Civilisation's got me down
taking me to the tail of my tether
driving me round the bend
I'm not going to stick it out
to see where it will end
I'll do my best to regress
back to the stone age
cook on fire paint the walls
sit on rocks keep my cool
do what I have to when nature calls
humanity gets my goat
making me vote skins no clothes
leading me to lunacy's throes
I'm not going to see it through
to find where it all goes
I want to be a cave caveman
a tough rough-and-ready caveman
and do what cavemen do
and if you feel the animal urge
I'll make caveman love to you
Everywhere the white man put his foot
unerringly on unwary locals he stepped
'til they became downtrodden
unable their customs to accept
physically mentally financially
from top to toe stern to stem
to his own advantage
he used abused and exploited them
no matter their culture
what floats their boat but gets my goat
Government-approved
he pushed religion down their throat
lies were spoken treaties broken
but we can't undo what they have done
and after all these years of dislocation
history has shown too little too late
reparation is no compensation
My ballot arrived in the mail
Like a skull & crossbones in gaol
But what gets my goat
If I do not vote
Then the GOP will prevail*
*For the Trumps to escape prosecution,
only the number of Republicans
elected to Congress matters;
quality, issues, and the future of
the USA are irrelevant to the GOP!
I gave my neighbor a poinsettia plant as a gift
At Christmas two years ago, but now I am miffed!
His apartment is right next door to mine.
The gorgeous red blooms were just divine.
Now he still has it sitting on his patio in woe,
Dead of course… it had long ago ceased to grow.
The dead plant glares at me daily, and it gets my goat!
I wonder if he knows it rocks my boat.
Why can’t the deadbeat neighbor throw it away?
I regret my gesture that Christmas Day.
I gave the plant to him trying to be kind.
That neighbor must be lazy, or just blind.
I can safely say he won’t be winning the patio contest.
My patio is a gorgeous oasis, which won as the best.
I won’t be giving that neighbor another plant to neglect.
It belongs in the plant graveyard so I can forget.
Evidently Voting's Trivial
By Franklin Price
9/2/2016
Evidently voting's trivial
I discovered so today
Learned from my on line trivia
This is what it had to say
Of the U.S. Population
That are qualified to vote
Only 66% are registered
This answer really gets my goat
It gets a little better
This is trivia of note
Only 57% of all
Cast their most important vote
Of by and for the people
Government is said to be
With this percent of voting
It's just not something that I see
If all of those who cast their votes
Matched their ballots all the same
Would barely elect the chosen,
By majority, what a shame
Many elections very close
Some a percent or two
That means percentage less than 30
Elected representatives for you
So if you are non-registered
Don't run your mouth at all
You're the reason for the spot we're in
Why we're in decline and fall
This year our choices not the best
Candidates not good by far
Please register and cast your vote
Be responsible, 'cause you are
Well and This Feeling Inside can't be denied
Although you're gone my love for you goes on
All my friends say find another but how can I
Give my love to another when there just might be
A snowballs chance in hell we'll get back together
Well maybe I'm a fool but I can't stop loving you...
This Feeling Inside can't be denied...well but it just
Gets my goat how some people will sleep with
Anyone any day or night...I'd rather be lonely
Praying someday you'll come back into my life
And then it'll be sweet yesterday once again...so
I don't care whose lips you're kissing and I don't
Care who you're making love to now 'cuz if it's the
Last thing I do I swear, I swear I'll win you back
Somehow...I don't give up just like that and nobody
Can love you the way I do, nobody ever could...well
And no the fire never did die, it’s what keeps me
Alive, This Feeling, This Feeling Inside!
(a response to a provocative post)
Your voyeuristic **** post
Has got me choking on my toast
I should have better things to do
Than commenting on sex and poo
Whilst everybody likes a joke
‘Tis somewhat niche, the **** poke
Night up the alley, hard to see
For those without a front door key
What people do behind closed doors
With wives or husbands, friends or whores
Is up to them when with consent
I question, sir, your post’s intent
We English hide within our castles
No comment when it comes to assholes
Trolling really gets my goat
Fie, sir, flounder in my moat
I hope your banal gasket’s blown
Write what you know and get your own
by Gail
I know my Damsel waits for me
Perhaps chained to some balcony
If I could only find the Key
I could set her free
The castle walls are high, I hear
Guarded by some guys, I fear
How to get inside's unclear
Planning this could take a year
This castle might just have a moat
I have no money for a boat
I can not swim, not even float
Boy, this gets my goat !
And in the moat, may dwell a fish
That thinks that I'm a tasty dish
It's not wise to take such risk
A thought, I really must dismiss
And if I got inside the gate
A dragon there, must surely wait
And eagerly anticipate
To meet with me and seal my fate
On second thought, I think I'll stay
On bended knee, I'll hope and pray
That eventually I'll find a way
And rescue her some other day
Many things annoy me
fools are top of the list
you know when they make
same mistakes time and again
Or spout utter rubbish
just for something to say
no meaning or purpose
just verbal diarrhoea
Injustice of any form
really gets my goat
like a hapless victim
bullied for being different
Or a cat or dog being kicked
just because their owner
is taking out their frustration on
something that can not fight back
Theft is another one that annoys
people work hard for what they have
only to have their homes invaded
their treasures stolen or smashed
Belongings defecated on, why?
usually it is jealousy or plain spite
people who misuse positions of power
these and many more really get my goat.
written 02/20/2014
contest What Annoys You
sponsor Frank H
Promises were made when you sought my vote
I swallowed your lies and it gets my goat
The changes you vowed did not come to pass
Where are those tax breaks for the middle class?
And what became of "peace in the Mideast"?
November will prove voter support has ceased
Congress exempts itself from their own mandates
No equal rights in these United States
Partisanship leads us down a dark road
The Tea Party's kettle is set to explode
Republicans, Democrats, please take heed
You've targets on your backs; soon you will bleed
A quick ticket home will be your reward
We the people won't buy lies anymore
*For the Outrageous Rhyme challenge
Whenever you're not feelin good
you go to the Doc like you should
If you need a pill
which you probably will
he'll prescribe it like any Doc would.
This treatment began years ago
prescribing pills seems quite apropos
But what gets my goat
once that pill's down your throat
how does it know where to go?
For several years I've been a raftsman every summer,
ferrying herds and noisy folks across this gray river
who shout and argue about this body of water.
The goat-like shepherd bleats out loud wisecracking puns
that you can never cross the river more than once,
it changes every moment, every swirl and flow,
it may look the same, but its waters come and go,
you float or swim in it, but whatever you do,
this river's not the one you crossed a while ago !
The sheep-like goatherd retorts in a screaming leap,
says that's a shallow view, he's got something deep,
if river is the water that drenches your knees,
a hundred rivers can swish by you in a sneeze
even when you pause for just a minute or two,
you're not the one crossing, rivers are crossing you !
As long as their banter won't make my raft keel over,
and they pay their fare like any decent passenger,
I shall throw neither goat nor sheep into the river.