True Lies II

I remember it all clearly now,
The words he spoke to me
They all came from this bird I saw,
Sitting high up in that tree

At first I thought I'd lost my mind,
Just listening to this bird
But not too long into his tale,
I hung on every word

The tale that he relayed to me,
Was filled with drugs and crime
And ended with a friend of his,
In prison doing time

It started in a park he said,
Just a couple of years ago
He never named the park he meant,
But said that I would know

His friend was walking down this path,
When he came across this man
Who sat beneath a big shade tree,
With a cigarette in his hand

He asked the man for a cigarette,
Then he smoked it then and there
He said the only reason that he did,
Cause a pigeon double dared

From that day on he couldn't stop,
He was smoking more and more
And to get his fix for nicotine,
He started robbing liquor stores

Then, when cigarettes no longer worked,
He switched to dip and chew
And swore he'd hit the hard stuff,
Before he was ever through

The police already knew his name,
By the time he was finally stopped
And they sentenced him to life without,
Inside a local mall's pet shop

I'm sure this tale seems out of place,
Or to you may seem a joke
But its as real as anything could be,
To the friend of which he spoke

That friend has thrown away his life,
I'm sure he must regret
All because he took a dare,
To smoke one cigarette

Reviews

[Chris]

Chuckling here... a sly "morality" play.

[Pure Evil]

It will be my last poem. I see now that I dont have the "right stuff" to write. Thank you for making it clear to me, I appreciate it

[Chris]

You put a GOOD story down in a memorable way - it IS called a "morality play" by some. It HAS a moral at the end - and I didn't LAUGH AT you - the chuckle was WITH you.

[Pure Evil]

I know you weren't laughing at me. And I intended to end it with the morality play, but even as I posted it, I KNEW it wasn't ready to be showed. I rushed it and that, in itself, was a mistake

[Chris]

you should have seen some of my own mistakes ...here... they were - I can't even adequately describe the ...grousing(?) - I got. Chuckling here.

[Pure Evil]

I shouldn't have forced it, but the story was in my head, and it wouldn't let me sleep lol...so I HAD to put it on paper.

[Chris]

yeah - I KNOW that feeling well... you should look at some of Roarke's stories - he's "twisted"...like us.

[Pure Evil]

Lmao... theres others like ME? Can this world handle us all? lol

[Chris]

I think we gathered here at WC cause no other place could handle the load...sigh

[Chris]

MySpace tried in the beginning and went bankrupt after years of effort then got sold and has never recovered.

[Pure Evil]

Well lol...we ARE a force to be reckoned with. lol

[Chris]

Welcome to WC... and Sunday mornings with me.

[Pure Evil]

Lol...thank you. And I really do appreciate what you've said.

[Chris]

Coffee helps during the sunrise... puts the worlds in perspective.

[Pure Evil]

lmao...I'd still be in prison if it weren't for coffee

[Chris]

I think it was Ed Hart that used to talk about that too... I think...

[Pure Evil]

lol...then that fellow DOES get it lmao