28

28

A Poem by CharlyeMonroe
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Number 28 of The Knockouts

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A how-to
It’s a guide for the revolution
The monkey
Excuse me
Ape
The man
And the gun
We are dead and all tomorrows canceled
A how-to
F**k you
A big middle finger to the man
On the Trigger
Woe is me
They are taking our jobs and out sourcing all the cheap labor out to, I don’t know Bhutan, or something
We are dead and tomorrow's canceled
Hope you didn’t pay your taxes
The square is filled with hippies and the homeless people, what the f**k is this, San Francisco?
Too cool for school
This is bigger than us, man
"We're in the middle of a revolution, here is a pass for solidarity’s sake"
Well that was a hard “r” but I know what you’re going for
This is evolution
A how-to
We are dead and tomorrow is a shadow
Wait, that was yesterday
Google it
Google map it
Google sketch it up and g-mail it
My space engineering
Black suites like I am Will Smith or Candide or IWill
He plays himself in every movie,
A role model for good-looking black boys to be when they grow up
"When you’re crowning characters, always have the same name, it gets a little old," she says
We are dead and tomorrow's canceled
Start with the, “it’s a how-to”
Destabilization of a set of institutions that are stratified into rank and file hard liners
Remember
When faced with larger numbers there is power
Slumbers the giant in mass
“Have faith,” he says
This is evolution
We are dead and all tomorrows canceled
Wall off the middle class and feed them the lower
You’ve got to get your hands dirty, if you know what I mean
It ain't all handshakes and head nods
Plant a tree or something,
You’re not a mouthpiece,
You don’t have the f*****g ambition
Because
"It’s bigger than us man"
I’m 6’2 and I’m pretty sure I could f**k Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney up
We are dead and tomorrow's canceled
The jellyfish releases its sperm and eggs in mass when confronted with the sharp side of, let us say, a letter opener
I bet there is some s**t in there
“Do jellyfish have a******s, a*****e?”
Backbone builds because it is bigger than us
Man
We are dead and tomorrow's canceled
The quote of the day is an epitaph
Radical, noun, free range chaotic neutral conditional to it’s A, B, and C
"These nuts are Cookoo, buckets even, boy"
We are dead and tomorrow's canceled
I want to start a John Cage cover band
"A hero ain’t nothing but a sandwich"
It takes me five minutes and three tries to wish on a star
Who’s on first?
Who’s on second?
Who’s on third? At the plate the showdown is a draw
Tie goes to the runner
It is not a one to one and when you can rub up against something
"Life is what gets under your skin"
That counts
"OK good but you're still gonna die."
Just a little bit and we’ll be on the other side

© 2013 CharlyeMonroe


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Added on January 14, 2013
Last Updated on January 14, 2013
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CharlyeMonroe
CharlyeMonroe

San Francisco, CA



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