The Antagonist

For someone I knew and everyone who thinks big, muscular and southern equals stupid and easily duped. Surprise b*****s!!

You never listened
to a thing that I said
All you saw me for
was a big muscle head
Or maybe my accent
threw you off track
You thought gray matter
was something I lacked
I knew what you wanted
on that you were clear
you were running on
deception and fear
Behind your lies
was a devious mind
I saw through you
Every last time
You were an image
Well so am I
You never stopped
to wonder why
I always seemed
an impossible task
To get on your side
so you never asked
I heard what you said
I knew what you meant
It was all bullshit
You'll never repent
You can fool some of the people
But you'll never fool me
You can fool some of the people
But you'll never fool me

Reviews

[KAOlmsted]

Preconceived stereotypical notions. Muscle heads don't read Nietzsche, people from the south are uneducated hicks, all New Yorkers are rude...it's always so much fun to prove Them wrong. I suspect you set this moron straight. Well done, Baby.

[Baby Ricochet]

Actually I have read Nietzsche. and Soren Kirkigaard, Jean Paul Sarte, Hegel, Kant and a bunch of other western Philosophers I wouldn't recommend to anyone. Most of it's just academic white boys playing games with words. One of my personal favorite books ever, The Great Gatspy. Really funny, great party scenes and I can read it cover to cover in one sitting. That's a great book right there

[KAOlmsted]

My point exactly. You read Nietzsche and the Great Gatsby and I am f*****g delightful, not rude in the slightest ;-) xoxo

[Pete Langley]

We all meet them, these self-obsessed, these unprincipled, empty people - but we move on when we become wise to their ways. They normally become pathetic lonely individuals when they run out of suckers. Well written, Mark. P.

[Baby Ricochet]

thank you pete

[Jack...]

Her loss, your gain...or...your loss, your gain. However you want to take it. very cool and your message came through loud and clear, albeit with a strange accent. :)>

[Baby Ricochet]

thank you jack

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

Ah don't we all have people like that in our life, well done, good read.

[Emerald Seas]

Some people are so very easy to read, and are lead by the stereotypes they've allowed to be ingrained in their mind (or they're just plain shallow creatures) rather than getting to know someone for who they are and what they have to offer intellectually (and if physically is there too... well, that's a bonus).

Now, some of us ladies... if we manage to find the whole package we're just smitten beyond belief :)
BTW - Southern IS sexy... (what the hell was she thinking!?)
Nice penning!

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Que Sera Sera.

[Patricia B. Hepler]

Hollow people with shallow minds are sharply clear to you, Baby. I liked this one, too!
Great emphasis at the end, btw.
~pat

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you pat

[Patricia B. Hepler]

Yvw :-)

[Salar Majak]

wow! such rage implicated in one poem, you had that one shouting of anger!
remind me not to get on your dark side XD
great poem, i share such feelings, believe me

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Aurora

[SamanthaMarie]

You should go to one of those poem recitals and I can almost guarantee that jaws will drop. F*****g stereotypes..

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Samantha

[Frieda P]

Anyone that would take you for a fool needs their head examined, so typical though, people still judge a book by it's cover, human nature I guess. Did you mean to repeat the last two lines? Not sure how that adds to your piece...or was that because 'she' never listened...

[Baby Ricochet]

Repeated for effect. Thank you for the review Frieda

[Annabelle Lee]

Poets be Thuggin'
Great work, Baby R.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thanks Dog