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IT'S ONLY A JOB (Lyric) by horus8
Everyone with a story line up here But please make sure You're in single file That way I can view your sober faces For miles, and miles Do not speak out loud, or fall asleep No fights, nor trifles amongst you sheep This is to be my job for a year and a week and if by chance you anger me I will make you leak Onto the floor, into the earth She is your mother, but not by birth You will soon not forget my hair nor smile You can't help but want my job for awhile Secrets hide in pigments divided The yin, the yang are both two-sided Who said black is bad and white is good Gold to rich, brown to poor Red is the garb of a senseless whore Blue in the sky, yellow in the sun Will it still be this way When it's all undone What color are you when you do die? All of them yes I know this is true Having died more than once Hath gave me this clue When deep within death You find yourself closer to life Carrying a strange understanding Of both husband and wife Mother and father, hater and lover To finally wear the shoes of another The points on my head The dents in your fingers A misshapen soul will re-form and linger Where it did die for a second will hover Then it'll disperse to seek out a new lover Even in death you must never be alone The thought is too scary The whole notion full-grown You there! Behind the man with no head Step over here please Get away from the dead Ah, yes I see you're still yet a boy A sacrifice from God to become Satan's toy I pull from my pocket this old silver bell Around your neck it will jingle As you lead my flock through hell Stop at the River Styx To give them a drink Don't you drink the water though boy Because, as Charon would quote It's used to seal up one's fate The drenching disclosure of eternal energies Is caused by my moat My energy now When you're done run along back to me I have so much to show you in just one year and a week So hurry along as I blow you this kiss Then I'll open my book To take your name from my list Just another year and a week Until I'm right on the brink Then and only then will I hand it all over To the wearer of the silver bell Who... will then rule hell Ah the burden The strain Of this job with minimal gain When in the end just to turn it all over? To float up into the heavenly sky? I'll then ask Him if it was all a man-made lie He'll give me a bell and a smile And I'll get to be Him for awhile For a year and a week anyhow The complete turning of soil Topwards floating of oil We're all just scales On this giant snake's coil Constricting the earth For all that it's worth Having been taught by our fathers Since the day of our birth JBH 6-955

Up the ladder: A Vietnam Homecoming
Down the ladder: Morphine Cherries of August

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Arithmetic Mean: 5.7391305
Weighted score: 5.7258363
Overall Rank: 1872
Posted: July 16, 2002 12:55 AM PDT; Last modified: July 16, 2002 12:55 AM PDT
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[7] Red_is_life @ 212.219.59.126 | 16-Jul-02/1:25 AM | Reply
Really like this,
Parts of it (to me anyway) remind me of a Chilli Peppers song!
not sure about 'as charon would quote' but love the rest of it! (7)
[n/a] horus8 @ | 16-Jul-02/1:31 AM | Reply
Charon, should have been capatalized as a noun. oops. fuck it.. anyway he is the mythological (Greek) ferryman on the river Styx. thanx. I love the peppers. their new album is already sounding like award winning shit. They are consistent. later
[n/a] razorgrin @ 142.166.108.149 | 16-Jul-02/5:51 AM | Reply
I like this one. The Charon allusion is very nice. Your imagery is great in general, actually.
[n/a] horus8 @ | 16-Jul-02/12:02 PM | Reply
Thank you razora. I really enjoyed reading your D&D poem yesterday. I thought it was incredibly original. You don't meet to many people that know how to reference like that. It was great.
[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. @ 217.39.158.28 | 16-Jul-02/1:23 PM | Reply
Oh how sweet. Razorgrin and horus8 are friends again... You make me sick!
[n/a] horus8 @ | 16-Jul-02/1:30 PM | Reply
You know what. You're right. Now that i've gone back and read that comment i've made myself sick. cunt whistle(sorry, tourettes) Your writing bears a striking resemblance to that anonymous guy in the suggestions area. Well one of them anyway. Do you happen to posess the quadruple zero carpet bomb? i'd like to borrow it. bugs. thankse
[8] -=SeTTle=- @ 63.214.96.187 | 16-Jul-02/10:35 PM | Reply
When you get all poetic I get hard. (Just a warning)
[n/a] horus8 @ | 16-Jul-02/11:46 PM | Reply
Well 80% of my income is from escorting socialites around lately(padst decade(17-27)). Practically everything i'm presented nowadays with is semi-erect. anxiously perched for strokably secret prediscovery. help me jesus i've been whored.
[7] yoda's aprentice @ 195.92.168.163 | 24-Jul-02/1:40 PM | Reply
very nice i like this poem good use of imagery well done you deserve a blue peter badge
[n/a] horus8 @ | 25-Jul-02/12:26 PM | Reply
i do! and i want my blue peter badge to come with the secret decoder ring & some crackerjack tatoos' thank you oh acolyte of the small green master'
[8] Bachus @ 24.126.113.154 | 30-Jul-02/1:33 AM | Reply
What? Do you think you're the devil? Or just a Taoist. You should go to bed JBH. I should kill my pet parrot after reading this Fantasy trash! What? Do you jerk off to Piers Anthony or something. Faggot!
[n/a] horus8 @ | 30-Jul-02/12:01 PM | Reply
you know what...after i finish a-cup of joe and my morning marlboro. i am going to write the governor of new mexico, and recomend further nucleur testing. p.s that fucking 'swastika' trash of yours isn't even a haiku (not that i write them i'm just stating. u r not kool. u r foreskin for no-onef
[8] -=SeTTle=- @ 63.214.98.27 | 30-Jul-02/9:07 PM | Reply
Don't go OVERBOARD. Actually, try to CALM THE FUCK DOWN. It would be a TERRIBLE PITY if you accidentally got the carpeted all BONGWATERED again, you tremendous PILLOCK. Vicious attacks aside, I've come to like this poem.
[n/a] horus8 @ | 30-Jul-02/9:30 PM | Reply
i'm kool as a cucumber peaches, besides the bongs now passe. i use a steamroller fresh with an iced mug of newcastle..how was your day? good poems lately. your beak is ever so sharp as the clit of a whore.s
[4] Sigh'ense... @ 64.156.154.176 | 30-Jul-02/10:50 PM | Reply
I feel this is a masterpeice spewed from and afflicted mind of illicit fantasy. i am impressed w/ your diversity, but remaining humorousness... Da1 a man of few validating words
[4] Sigh'ense... @ 64.156.154.176 | 30-Jul-02/10:52 PM | Reply
Boooooring...
[4] Sigh'ense... @ 64.156.154.176 | 30-Jul-02/10:54 PM | Reply
wrong one my bad
[n/a] horus8 @ | 30-Jul-02/11:29 PM | Reply
when sidhartha crawled into my ass he brought the camel. i love an eighteen year old with robust breasts and the lotus trap snap. she paints like helen keller on peyote and talks to animals...what can you do with a puppet?
i can impersonate tom cruise missile in magnolia. my martini is poised and i have a hand full of gardenias soaked in vanilla.shortstraw.klute.fonda.rolex.poi
[n/a] daniella @ 67.34.219.117 | 2-Sep-02/1:22 PM | Reply
class. class. claaaassss.
SHUT UP.
[n/a] horus8 @ | 4-Sep-02/10:50 AM | Reply
i have to start rehearsing for the sound of music today at 5....i fear my outrageous amount of time spent upon poemranker will have to be cut in half...pity realy...and a bit frightening...
[7] deleted user @ 64.63.204.8 | 1-Sep-03/11:42 AM | Reply
I usually don't like rhyming poetry...


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