a sorta Al Jolson poem

Is this you,dead great grandma

 floating through the room

on an unseeable balloon,

with eyes all ballooned up.

Is it Al Jolson with his face daubed

in dark black ichor...

why is everyone laughing.

why do people always laugh at things that scare me.

Reviews

[Khaaki]

the last line really has a lot of weight. Perceptions differ... The world is insensitive and scornful most of the time...

[Fabian G. Franklin]

"I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw — I could not bring
My passions from a common spring —
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow — I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone " Edgar Allen Poe...

[Chloe..Across the Unive..]

To see your great grandma floating through the air would maybe be good ... but to associate with a clown looking like Al Jolson would scare anyone!
Me for one anyway.

Chloe

[No0bix]

It's probably just me, but this felt like a dream after a night of grass. Images and plenty of surreal humour, but you never feel like you're going to land. A beautifully unique piece, great job.
Oh, and when you figure out the answer to your final question, let me know. :)

[Narnie]

It's strange how our own fears - no matter how small - are so huge and personal, almost like children that we can't seem to share with other people and make them understand HOW important they are. Bulbous eyes are yukky - I agree.

[W.k.kortas]

This is not Mammy and Pappy waiting for the Robert E. Lee. I would have never tied Jolson to something like this. Utterly inventive work.

[Linear]

A lyrical pleasure, it's strange how things that children once loved now scare them, like Clowns, I blame Stephen King and his ilk

[TAO]

Alicante Lullaby, I like this voice...mostly because it's kind of weird. It has this subtle darkness to it (or maybe that's just me?). For what it is, it's a pleasurable read, and beautiful piece. Very well done.

[.]

. well, my take is that we live in an insensitive world ... and people just don't get it ... and when they laugh ... they trivialize a genuinely felt human emotion ... i disagree with emily ... laughing is just a convenient way to camouflage internal hysteria ... or exhibit contempt and derision ... we are to express freely and anything that obstructs that is technically a human rights violation ... you stand out and are outstanding because you don't laugh when everyone else is laughing ... only because you want to fit in ...

[Sweet_pale_cacophony]

You have a certain quirky trait to yor writes and i love that quirkiness..