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Friday, November 25, 2011

Teaching (the little bastards to smoke)

by Raymond Keen

Teaching (the little bastards to smoke)
In the rain
Without parachutes.
Don’t look down,
Since there is no afterlife.

What you see,
What we are,
Painted faces in the animal kingdom.
Don’t look down,
Since there is no afterlife.

More and more people
Walk around in jogging suits.
Is this good for our Democracy?
Don’t look down,
Since there is no afterlife.

Your old church,
Which is sitting on shit,
Spreads our money all over the floor.
Don’t look down,
Since there is no afterlife.

You stick it in her,
“The old in-out, in-out,”
And we call that love.
Don’t look down,
Since there is no afterlife.

According to science,
Mind is brain,
Eyes are meat.
Don’t look down,
Since there is no afterlife.

Why did we do it?
We did it for the money.
It was the money.
Don’t look down,
Since there is no afterlife.

We must continue
With professional commitments,
While working toward our doctorates.
Don’t look down,
Since there is no afterlife.

You look better in the sun
While riding your silver bicycle.
We can’t even remember your name.
Don’t look down,
Since there is no afterlife.

Where can we go
To be someone else,
If beauty doesn’t matter?
And beauty doesn’t matter,
Since there is no afterlife.

5 comments:

  1. I think this is a very funny poem. Not "haha" funny, but bitingly funny. The knife goes in, but the blade is so thin, and the thrust so fast that one hardly feels it. Then comes the almost painful laugh.

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  2. Ray has a way of seducing the english language into submission and then having his way with it. The reader is left wondering and wishing for more.

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  3. Ray, I know you.

    "In and out, in and out"
    is a bugger place.

    Fast food, fast fodder, fast sex,
    faster wit.
    da-rib-man

    da-rib-man

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  4. Your poem is a unique combination of wit, darkness, and moral outrage. Most persons will miss the moral outrage, but this is what makes this highly original poem a great one.

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