rearrange my rep and say I'm acting strangely
while I disappear unseen
out of range from the scene
trying to make sense of the path what drains me
and continue to claim my head and actions are strange
beyond sane and lost of logic
shrugging shoulders at the topic
as though mental damage the answer able to explain
and let it engrain to whom you entertain maintaining
the same message of he's "insane" has a "broke brain" or went "deranged"
avoid voicing my avoidance exists from my annoyance
at your persistent ignorance, ridicule and evident cold blooded attitude to my existence, saying I went mad in an unexplained instant without warning like I took too many drugs and changed from night to morning, and now you're the selfless friend who's lost a friend who meant much more than can be replaced mourning, gaslighting my name in my absent space you two faced
special case embracing the need to disgrace mates to fill and finally feel the first placed podium place while I'm wasting in pain going crazy trying to re-pace what made me this way,
As your immediate boss and superior
It behoves me to have to inform you
Your services are no longer required
A formal letter of termination will ensue!
It has nothing to do with performance
You've really done an admirable job
Believe me, I've tried hard to ignore them
The rumours from everyone's gob!
You've stepped over the line, my friend
With this affair that has people talking
Each time you walk through the office
Sure you've noticed people gawking
I've tried really hard to turn a blind eye
And attempted to keep it hush hush
But now I just can't ignore it anymore
I'm beginning to turn into a lush!
Normally it's not a reason for dismissal
But you've caused me to endure such strife
That I must consider this a special case
Coz the partner in this affair is my wife!
Nice girl Ottava Rima knew her place
but in her very private room did write
a limerick which in this special case
was bluer than the dark mask of midnight.
Could she read it with a pious straight face?
She'd have to; Palm Sunday was in plain sight.
She went to church and read her naughty verse.
The priest died of shock, she laughed til she burst.
Said Harvard to Bucky
we feel quite so lucky
your genius on campus
has caused quite a ruckus
but this time we're sure you're less mucky;
And yet we're not sure
which department could endure
your thesis exegetical
your wisdom eisegetical
of what is and is not we're less sure.
Perhaps you're a poet
and the last ego to know it,
you thought this was science
mixed up with con-science,
poetically versed to think and show it.
When Bucky writes meta-physical science
we read him as physical conscience
and that could be fine
it fits with his rhyme
of teleopathic resonance.
There once was a Fuller who prehended
a Special Case universe co-prehensile
Earth fractal embrace
wears polymathic face
as synergetic wisdom's eco-tensile.
It is so funny how you inspired me
The words I put on paper seem to set me free,
Lord knows the hate I feel towards you
It makes it easy for me because it is all true,
You are all the evil put into one
It is so amazing how easy the poems come,
You're the last person I could ever care for
So my inspiration here has me writing more,
The thoughts are in my mind
I often wonder if I will ever find peace or time,
I cannot believe how one person's attitude can be all these things
But, you are a special case due the fact that you are insane,
I will keep on writing till my mind goes blank
Hopefully by then it won't hurt me to think,
It is unreal the kind of person you really are
How in the hell did you ever get this far,
I understand that lies have helped you get your way
With your mind so warped you can't remember whom you have even betrayed,
It is very sad how you can function day by day
Not even caring how or what you say,
Eventually it is all going to come down to you
And that is the day I hope and pray you will be through.
Written By: Unique Poetry 2007
people talk about me like im a special case in a mental hospital, i used to be depressed, but now my life is more than dull, i think so many thoughts, my mind is way over full, i get hot in cold places, like summertime wool. give in to madness, its gravity's pull, i want to go swim, so i jump from the hull, im as small as an ant, like im wearing a skull, im walking a horse, but im riding a bull. but i really don't care, because i love the attention, people talk about me, like something they forgot to mention, i have so much stuff, its the biggest collection, im insane but not crazy, and that is a correction.
i strive for you baby
Justice raped by a State of Wetbacks
Justice be a Commanders first love
You are stuttering cap that bull, you give a full account
What render aide? aint that a law?
Wait look at the video tape
Well DA said I was a special case.
Hey its ok Dan, hell man I been up there with you
Looking hard studying ever face of my Jurors
My fury, my fault, I still fall hard Im sorry Sheriff's
S.O. be paid and served with high respects
Jefferson be a racist mofo in my book
I pass by you like Soputhern gentlemen do
Respect? well Sir i carry a sword too
And I remember her, yea 911 operator a hot line
And The Captain hes hell on wheels
trust me you dont want to be on his badside
I learned this the hard way
In cell 1 segergation 4 mnths
Seashells were awesome back then
My cousin Amys daughter drowned to death
My mom got my kids back from the state
Oh yea I was in 7 highspeed chases
And trust Justice she always served me well
Unblinking as the sun rises.
Always thinking before venturing.
Falling through the lines of a cornfield.
Starting in front of the Battlefield.
Crying into the night as a lost soul.
Fighting for their goal.
To unite all in the peace that surpasses.
To keep a vigil on a hill that rises.
To the flickering of a candle lighting.
This is a special case to many.
Most of whom are unknown to us.
Most share in the common goal.
What could it be.
What drives them forward.
What keeps them true.
What keeps them brave.
Helps us see into our selves.
Keeps our young in a loving embrace.
Keeps our people united.
Brings in Peace throughout what.
The world.
The soul.
The mind.
The body.
The love.
The child.
The only answer "US".
Everyone in the world today.
Everyone to come to live here.
The entire Universe that awaits.
Keep the hope, love, and faith.
Without that then all is waist.
Now go on and let not you be lost.
This goes to all the people.
All the nations of the world.
But most of all this goes to the Soldier.
May the higher power be with you.
This is also for those of 9/11.
As your immediate boss and superior
It behoves me to have to inform you
Your services are no longer required
A formal letter of termination will ensue!
It has nothing to do with performance
You've really done an admirable job
Believe me, I've tried hard to ignore them
The rumours from everyone's gob!
You've stepped over the line, my friend
With this affair that has people talking
Each time you walk through the office
Sure you've noticed people gawking
I've tried really hard to turn a blind eye
And attempted to keep it hush hush
But now I just can't ignore it anymore
I'm beginning to turn into a lush!
Normally it's not a reason for dismissal
But you've caused me to endure such strife
That I must consider this a special case
Coz the partner in this affair is my wife!
© Jack Ellison 2012
As your immediate boss and superior
It behoves me to have to inform you
Your services are no longer required
A formal letter of termination will ensue!
It has nothing to do with performance
You've really done an admirable job
Believe me, I've tried hard to ignore them
The rumours from everyone's gobs!
You've stepped over the line, my friend
With this affair that has people talking
Each time you walk through the office
Sure you've noticed people gawking
I've tried really hard to turn a blind eye
And attempted to keep it hush hush
But now I just can't ignore it anymore
I'm beginning to turn into a lush!
Normally it's not a reason for dismissal
But you've caused me to endure such strife
That I must consider this a special case
Coz the partner in this affair is my wife!
©Jack Ellison 2012
Dogs are a well-reputed breed,
Of loyalty they are fabled.
And once they err, they lose face,
For their pedigree is their referee.
But our dog is a special case
And his upbringing is of a suspicious source.
Fidelity is not one of his attributes
And nastiness is his newly acquired habit.
When our dog committed a felony,
He was summoned to high court.
But he could, even, lie and perjure
And had his own tail to testify!
His sacrilege tainted the consecrated House of Justice
Then found guilty, culpable, and duly accused,
Of such allegations, he received much retribution.
He was condemned, wrong rectified, and case adjourned.
©Atef Atyaoui
04/02/2008
He poured out the shoebox
onto the floor
he said don't you worry
I have plenty more
I know that you're in there
I've saved you for years
there's even a cannister
full of your tears
you'll have to go through it
there's one special case
that's full of the pieces
for most of your face
I knew you would wake up after a while
and wonder what feller
ran off with your smile
I know that you threw all these pieces away
but I went through your garbage
and saved them to say
there will come a time to put on your face
the one that the world sees
get out of this place
This place of disaster
you've hunkered down in,
the hurricane's over
it's time to begin
to clean up your act dear
now let's try our best
to pick out the pieces of you from the rest
I just had to laugh at this crazy surprise!
there was my hearing,there were my eyes!
no wonder everything always was dead,
this guy had a box
with the rest of my head!
we sat down together to pick out the pieces
of sisters and brothers and uncles and nieces
and when we were finished
we had nothing new,
just the rest of old me
who still loves
the old you.
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