Misquoting Oscar Wilde

lying in the 

                                 gutter

                 looking at 

                              the stars

as a homeless bloke

            pisses his life

                                away

on me,

                     on me,

content, at

                            ease

more c

           omfortable

        and alive,

and better shoes, too,

Reviews

[Eilis]

Boys like to piss in public places. Least that’s been my experience. I recall my younger brothers getting reprimanded for doing so. My mom feels it is one of the highest forms of degradation, but I let my boy do it outside if he needs to. Within reason. Sometimes there aren’t other options.

Like for the homeless man in your poem. He’s not likely to find welcome in many respectable establishments, so what’s the natural course of action. Making due. Doesn’t have to be the end for everyone, and the speaker here seems to feel a bit of nostalgia for the freedom the man exemplifies.

I know enough about Oscar Wilde to know he had ideas about art and life that were both serious and contradictory to what was accepted. Spending time in Reading Gaol (jail for me) as he did. So what’s the answer. Prisoner to order or comfortable and alive in the blunt freedom of having nothing. Neither is an easy road. I’ll probably always choose the order though. False sense of control I suppose.

Maybe it’s a stretch, but the formatting made me think of a stream of said piss making its way from the drunken man to the ground. I’m embarrassing myself now.

Leaving.

[gram linski]

I have enjoyed the blunt freedom of having nothing, as you so eloquently put it, and got nothing but a bag full of damp poems to show for it, you are not the first person to describe my poetry as a stream of piss, lol

[gram linski]

p.s. my ex liked nothing more than squatting down between two parked cars and letting the piss just flow, ya know, you know you do

[Eilis]

Ha ha, I’m not saying anything

[Gee]

Had a brief dalliance many moons ago with a big ginger bird who had a fascination with piss, so much so that she asked if I would sit in a bath and let her pee on me. Well, you can call me old fashioned but I'd think twice about pissing on my own feet if suffering from trench foot so the idea of her squatting over me and dousing me in her stinking pee held no sway at all. Perhaps this is something that all redheads have a wish to do, who knows.
Good evening.

[gram linski]

Good evening, had an ex like that except she wanted me to pee on her, which we did in the communal bath, and never washed it and never told my flatmate, who basically washed himself in my piss, hahaha serves him right for playing the f*****g digeridoo, sorry I digress,

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Ok apart from the bin, this piece lacks a full stop after 'too'. Don't misquote me on it bro!
So one human sees themselves as superior because he can afford leather on his feet?

[gram linski]

??????????

[jacob erin-cilberto]

one vs. another on the streets....better cardboard for the bed....better shoes...
it is contentment to have enough shelter and wares to wear...some know the very, very simple pleasures in life.
others are totally unaware...they have too much and just need more more more.
j.

[gram linski]

Thanks j. bit of a drunken ramble, but still you managed to find the core,