A Life Defiant

The explanation

months pass, months gone

a reduction in production

due to soulless obstruction

the stock value of this soul

is in the toilet bowl,

which may have been the goal

because he felt like Bob Dole

in November of ninety-six

when it was a battle of dicks

one that worked with ease

and one that needed grease

that came in blue pill form

feeling s****y must be the norm

and so he sat in foreign court

feeling like a genital wart

because his jokes just weren't funny

and all the plaintiffs wanted was money

but they lost anyway

and he won the day

in a bittersweet way

accepted the buy-out

and now had the freedom

to scream his pain out

and still he felt like a miserable d****e

that ultimately tied his career noose

but that dice throw came up seven

a gambler's equivalent to earthen heaven

out of that despondent place

that always put on a stoic face

but there's a knife with that warm embrace

personal experience makes that case

in the end, he only has himself to blame

a self-destructive path that always the same

and now he slings cases and halves

onto stack-bases, displays and shelves

and the packages come rectangular

in multiples of three, six and twelve

decaying the world's teeth one can

and one bottle at a time

so the health advocates see this

as a veritable war crime

either which way, he never felt

like a winner, just utter slime

all things for a time went very wrong

just like that one Everclear song

and the pattern will run its course

most likely the inverse of north

so hear it ends all mouse silent

another chapter in a life defiant

Author's Note

Reviews

[A. Amos]

Smart, sharp and intelligent write my friend, I was lost in your wonderful piece of writing...

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thank you again for all your reviews today.