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Reno (Lyric) by <{Baba^Yaga}>
Billy doesn't like to go to school. He'd rather play hooky instead you see. Mother drops him off at a quarter 'til 8:00, But then he takes a cab into the city? You can tell that he's looking for something. He waits at a park bench hoping his dad will walk by. Leon lives deep in Sun Valley. The largest trailer park in Washoe County. We play Dungeons & Dragons every day. He's the smartest kid that I've ever seen. He's into Isaac Asimov, and J.R Tolkien. Gave me the book Shardik, and it changed my life. Sarah lives in a mortuary. Her father sells death for a living you see. She paints her nails black, and she wears it too. The other kids call her "Vampire freak". She writes to Ann Rice, each and every week. I wrote to Stan Rice instead about 'Some Lamb'. Jezebel doesn't sleep no more. Her big brother knows what she's good for. He tells her to "shut up", and "keep it down". He has been doing this since mom went away. Their father started it as a game they'd play. Robbing them of any chance to be set free. My life was all about moving around. A pointless search were nothing and void were found. Then I looked with a laugh one day. I had been staring all that time at the ground. And hanging around at the lost and found. Sometimes you have to amputate your past to save today.

Up the ladder: non ars poetica
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Arithmetic Mean: 4.75
Weighted score: 4.9327645
Overall Rank: 9131
Posted: August 18, 2002 5:28 AM PDT; Last modified: December 5, 2003 7:56 PM PST
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[8] <~> @ 24.44.185.41 | 18-Aug-02/6:20 AM | Reply
7-7-7 for the others, and this one's called reno. coincidence? i think not. you give yourself away with the last, here. did you mean to? and the dangling letters, are you just flaunting it to get the bile a-flowing on the dark side? back to the poem--why not tie them all up at the end? i like neat packages, and you are using more structure with b^y, so why not take it the next step?
[n/a] Bachus @ 24.126.113.154 | 18-Aug-02/7:40 AM | Reply
i'm sorry z..but i'm mfucking livid right now.. i wrote my ass off to comment on that fucks spittle and he pulled my shit off..what a fucking joke.. FUCKI.;LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU. i hate little fat assed techie creeps like that fuck.what a pussy ass fucking creep man to erase another mans m,essage is just "bottomless" yeah da i said bottomless you FUCK, think that shits funny huh..haiku writing fat ass starbucks visiting sell outs. i demand you fucki9ng repost those two messages god damnit..that's fucking censorship beyond the norm.. bullshit!
[8] <~> @ 68.63.97.120 | 18-Aug-02/8:52 AM | Reply
what's up with that? i saw your response, and i was surprised, to be honest, because it felt like you went raw when you answered, and then he comes trotting back with the salt and gives you a nice brisk wire-brush rub-down. usually, you don't get so personal. you even apologized to the guy. and now he's yanked everything. true colors a little to glaring here? man, everybody sees who everybody else is between their words. didn't you like what you saw, EW? it was that haiku he wrote about friday night escapism, wasn't it? it was a good poem, i thought. but, as usually the battle verbose was more gripping. don't be askairt, EW. repost.
[n/a] Bachus @ 24.126.113.154 | 18-Aug-02/9:13 AM | Reply
no it wasn't.. he knows what his comment said before he pulled it.. and i know what it said, and i fucking hate spineless wannabe "intelectuals" who assume there lifes away, so fucking ugly and fat they dare not leave the house..which is why my friend Bachus wrote a little piece called why i want to kill opie recently....i don't like people talking about my son or my family, or my friends in idahoian bits..it's pathetic and false..i enjoy dealing with a person who doesn't FUCKING MUMBLE AND GIGGLE and use big words like "homophobic", just cause they've had there thumbs in their own arses for so long they're starting to squiggle, fucking ryan thorstad wannabes, you can't be like ryan he is open minded and full of bright ideas that go way beyond pulling comments..notice eart fuckers shit has suddenly vanished..what a crock of shit..i'm so fucking sick of dealing wwith the uppity uppercrust, they're so witty and dexterious, but if it comes down to actually conversing about a certain topic they're no where to be found..cuz they're so clever and lol! hey earthsmocker i got your homophobia right here dude in the form of my tight muscular shaved ass you fucking spineless cockholdh
[8] Shuushin @ 207.5.211.177 | 5-Dec-03/8:14 PM | Reply
A lyric... - kindof like a Lou Reed type thing? That would work, but I feel like I'm missing the context of this, somehow. The little vignettes are done well - the rhyming stays *just* this side of being contrived.

The comments, even though they are over a year old, are pretty entertaining.

What prompted the re-post?



[n/a] Bachus @ 24.126.116.54 > Shuushin | 5-Dec-03/8:23 PM | Reply
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