This is a serious question,
I don't want to cause a stink,
but how can you really tell
when you're out of invisible ink?
Scientists ask great questions.
They don't do it for a lark.
We know about the speed of light
so, what's the speed of dark?
The car mechanic called me
while I was eating some clam chowder.
He said I can't fix your brakes,
so I made your horn louder.
The paranormal world is fascinating,
it really is so grand.
All those who believe in psychokinesis:
go ahead and raise my hand.
I remember when the candle shop burned down.
The firemen arrived without delay.
Everyone in the crowd stood around
and started singing Happy Birthday.
I like to watch new movies.
They often start the latest trends.
But if Barbie is so popular,
why do you have to buy her friends?
I have failed at many things.
Often times I've cried.
If at first you don't succeed,
destroy all evidence that you tried.
Life is one great big adventure.
It's all about what we do.
So, if at first you don't succeed,
then skydiving's not for you.
Black Magic Woman was tired and sick of the Dark Ages
Conferred with all sorts of Gods friends and medieval sages
I have to earn my stripes or let it be a multicoloured hide
Am a fierce cat woman with future and history in my stride
The panther was the favourite mount of ancient Dionysus
Give me some weed for ecstasy theatre and psychokinesis
I’ll rest in my cave for three days and prepare for my fight
Emit sweet smelling odour and lure a dragon at midnight
Clever sod thinks he is immune to pheromones and stench
But when he comes into my dungeon I’ll take my revenge
On injustices of religion myth legend and ancient belief
Devour the beast with my magical potion as an apéritive
09th October 2020
They invade the cafe at first light
Then with latte and laptop held tight
They seize tables for four
To let go nevermore
So all others drink coffee upright
With a bored intellectual stare
That one hankers to be Molière
If he's writing a play
For a hit on Broadway
Then its plot must involve Solitaire
One's quite the scientific young chap
For which typing is no handicap
He must write his thesis
By psychokinesis
Cause the keyboard gets hardly a tap
That one with the big apple fritter
Is researching a mental transmitter
He's receiving the thoughts
Of strange cosmonauts
Transferred through Facebook and Twitter
Perhaps you will think I'm pretentious
And more than a little contentious
But it's just a disgrace
To monopolize space
And I think that's the general consensus
Metaphorical yet often rhetorical,
Thoughts prehistorical arranged in my cerebral by oracles,
Psychokinesis ability,
My articulate theories move mountains,
I counsel the councils,
Refurbished the vowels,
This may go over your head but I've said a mouthful,
Young Galileo,
I can decode the stars,
Rise among their reservoirs and continue through mars,
As a young black man,
They don't expect this intellect,
I'm between genius and brilliant,
How about I just let both intersect,
Perfect,
In retrospect but indirect like an architect,
Only twenty two years young but i'm the best in this dialect
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