My conscience works overtime in these modern days
temptations at fingertips so easy to be persuade
People seem different too friendly or not at all
with consequence of a greeting getting bawl
Small things uncomfortable never at ease
for no matter the direction you can never please
Staying home quietly trying to be calm and relax
troubled by neighbors fighting and one holding an axe
Nervous anxiety brewing more and more
at night under the bed sleeping on the floor
The world seems too touchy even obscene
enough to grasp your head and loudly scream
They always say on news he was such a regular guy
the nut house is full but feeling comfortable inside.
What Trump Had Intended
We always knew what Trump intended;
Not only all the rules had been bended,
When perpetrated,
An idiot indicated;
Was fruit cake who in nut house ended.
Jim Horn
Ok, this is where I was
A few miles since you last saw me.
A little before sun up,
Before I became road kill.
Stay closer and I'll tell you more.
May I ask, before,
When will I see you again?
Your pure and unnatural thing,
Your nut house?
It's never so easy
When you are road kill like me
Not even hurried
No one checking If I'm here.
Who are you anyway,
To have ever looked this way?
A love letter to road kill,
That spirited, wounded animal
With unfinished business.
Ok, so where were you?
Did you think it wasn't spelled out
Clearly a few miles since I last saw you?
Before you became road kill?
Another Compunction
What I have is another compunction;
Make chart measuring Trump's destruction
While we started singing same old song;
In a nut house he really does belong;
Builders have to do with construction.
Now he is insulting someone else by
calling himself a builder. All that he
builds is a bunch of hot air and still
thinks he is campaigning.
James Thesarious Hilarious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
Nightly in the mirror she would stare,
and pull out clumps of her own hair.
Wigs she wore during the day,
while doing things her way.
Neighbors said the way she walked,
the way she talked was very creepy.
For quite some time she was able to maintain,
the fact that she was slowly going insane.
People did notice when she made the dead look like a clown.
Someone called for the cops to come around.
On the bus she was caught trying to leave town.
Now, she is in the nut house a total lock down.
In therapy it was found that as a child
after her mother had passed,
she saw her dad having intimate times with the dead.
After he passed she took over the funeral business with dread.
Over time it drove her mad,
and she began to act like her dad.
After she heard voices in her head.
She would wake up next to the dead.
“Why did it happen ?
What went wrong ?
She had always appeared
stable minded and strong.”
“They say she had some kinda
break down.
She became unglued.
The cops found her walking
down the street in the nude.”
“Whoa ! in the nude ?”
“Yes,in the nude.
Keep it on the down low.
She really is crazy,you know ?
I heard they had to shock her brain.”
“My goodness,really ?”
“Yeah,and she will never be the same.”
“Wow!”
“As a neighbor she was always strange.
Conversation wise she never wanted to exchange.
Always on the run,having too much fun.
Never quite done with this one and that one.
Thirty days in the nut house,
now she’s quiet as a mouse.
Look there she is across the street.
Welcome home dear !
Ain’t she sweet ?”
What the gossip mongers did not know.
In the war her boyfriend had died,
and she became petrified !
I cant believe I fell For your lies
The way you always made me cry
You just played with my heart, like it
was a new toy
Then after a while you moved on.
Why must you do this to me.
I'm not the stupidist fish in the sea
Why can't you be the one who's in
love with me.
You stole my heart
now it weeps and cries
to get ou of this jail
you threw it inside.
Just call me crazy.
Put me in a nut house.
But you will be the one
who's missing me.
Just one day you'll see
What you missed, when
You left ME.
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