A Dead Sheep

[Magpie]

I recently discovered this poem that I wrote many many years ago and it somehow escaped the mandatory destruction ritual that all my other shit 'miserable youth' poems had to go through. It is so miserable that it is hilarious, so what better place for it than the 'fun' forum. Hold on to your hats, this is proper serious stuff.

A Dead Sheep

Sheep long dead by the side of the road
Eternal sleep now?
How I wish I were like thee, free... Free?
Released by earth for the next new birth.
Deceased yet not dead, but cruelly instead
Thrust back here with pains of fear
To carry these chains of mortal existence.
Persistence will carry you through
And the brief view of Heaven will fade
In the shade of this prison consuming.
Sheep... if you now be a human like me;
How unlucky we are.

And for all those affected by the poem here is a dancing banana to make things better again.


"I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations" - Allen Ginsberg Mark

[Leanne]

Thank god for the banana.

This is so bad it's actually one of the most awesome things I've read lately. You should post this on tumblr -- it'd be viral in a second.

[rayheinrich]

Its complex rhyme structure doesn't just pique, it incites.

And such youthful cynicism... it reminds me (both appreciatively and painfully) of what I've lost.

I yearn for its innocence.

[just mercedes]

I love the banana ...

[rayheinrich]

These women and their bananas...

[Magpie]

Thank god for the banana.

This is so bad it's actually one of the most awesome things I've read lately.  You should post this on tumblr -- it'd be viral in a second.

I couldn't handle the fame and adulation. I will promise not to post anymore 'youth' poems in return for a haggis villanelle, it seems like a reasonable deal. 

Its complex rhyme structure doesn't just pique, it incites.

And such youthful cynicism... it reminds me (both appreciatively and painfully) of what I've lost.

I yearn for its innocence.

I blame Wordsworth, he has an adverse effect on young impressionable minds. He makes Eminem seem quite playful.

I  love the banana ...

Bananas are not the only fruit

These women and their bananas...

[rayheinrich]

These women and their bananas...

It's real. A kitchen contrivance that actually cores a small hole in the center
of a banana and inserts whatever you desire (in this instance, chocolate).
This, I suspect, is what many women want out of their bananas.
And, call me old-fashioned if you will, I wish I had some in mine.