Time to flush away

To you and you know who you are (and so do we)

Time to flush away

by jack

 

 

Are you who you say you are?

What should we believe?

Picking up these café crumbs

Trying to deceive

 

Changing names like underwear

Faces forged for free

Taking poets renderings

Nothing but a thief

 

Preying on the honest

Stalking of the young

Drooling like the troll you are

Speak with forked tongue

 

Jagged little fingers

Still you can not write

Staging every victim

Filling them with fright

 

Carving your existence

On another’s verse

Satan as a poet

Could not be much worse

 

We should slap your parents

For giving you a name

That you are afraid to use

Because you are ashamed

 

Nothing but a termite

Chewing up the wood

I hope your mouth has splinters

No, that would be too good

 

Why not pack a suitcase

Everything you own

Travel very far from here

Just leave us alone

 

Are you who you say you are

If so that is ok

If not, you’re just a piece of crap

Time to flush away

 

 

 

 

 

Author's Note

Thank you for reading and not stealing

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

I believe hard not to repeat some words. I have study poetry in college and read all the master of poetry that I could. I tell the young people. Read the old timers like William Cowper, Richard Crashaw , Alexander Pope and John Milton. There are many other. They were the first word-men who used words and thoughts to open doors to thoughts and wonder. I don't get too excited when someone borrow a line or two from me. We learn from each other. To steal a complete poem is very wrong. I believe a writer's goal is to motivate another to think and write. A excellent poem. Few people have style that are hard to copy. I would love to be able to write like Dante and describe like George martin. Thank you.
Coyote

[Jack...]

Thanks so much for your kind review and thoughts. They are appreciated

[de_maruf]

Aspects of institutions

Although individual, formal organizations, commonly identified as "institutions," may be deliberately and intentionally created by people, the development and functioning of institutions in society in general may be regarded as an instance of emergence; that is, institutions arise, develop and function in a pattern of social self-organization, which goes beyond the conscious intentions of the individual humans involved.
As mechanisms of social interaction, institutions are manifest in both formal organizations, such as the U.S. Congress, or the Roman Catholic Church, and, also, in informal social order and organization, reflecting human psychology, culture, habits and customs, and encompassing subjective experience of meaningful enactments. Most important institutions, considered abstractly, have both objective and subjective aspects: examples include money and marriage. The institution of money encompasses many formal organizations, including banks and government treasury departments and stock exchanges, which may be termed, "institutions," as well as subjective experiences, which guide people in their pursuit of personal well-being. Powerful institutions are able to imbue a paper currency with certain value, and to induce millions into cooperative production and trade in pursuit of economic ends abstractly denominated in that currency's units.[citation needed] The subjective experience of money is so pervasive and persuasive that economists talk of the "money illusion" and try to disabuse their students of it, in preparation for learning economic analysis.[citation needed]

[Jack...]

Huh?

[Frieda P]

Why would anyone copy this entire wiki page as a review is beyond moi! I didn't get it either.....

[Jack...]

Maybe it has something to do with toilets...

[Frieda P]

Ha one would hope...or flushing you know what? ;-)

[Marc Marlon Villaflor]

Then what we will do? lol :)

[Epipsychologist]

I think I get it. The Joke is that he's stolen from wikipedia that ends in "[citation need]," suggesting that basically everything on Wikipedia is copy and pasted from somewhere else without due citation. There's probably a good bit of truth to this, because original authors would either cite their own work, and true scholars would cite their sources.

[Epipsychologist]

*he's stolen information, I meant to say.

[Jack...]

Oh, I get it now. Thanks.

[shallimarRose]

OMG.... I love this Jack, this is so true... I run a group on another site and almost no-one uses their real photo.. that is bad enough but in my first first few weeks as moderator I caught a women on there with two different profiles, plagiarized poems on both of them... grrrrr.... I threatened to write the original artists and she flushed herself right out of the group.. lol I dont see the point of trying to take credit for something not your own...xo silhouette

fyi my photo is me and is current within less then 2 years..

[Jack...]

Thank you so much and FYI, my photo is me as well, taken last fall.

[shallimarRose]

Yes I thought it was you.. You can usually tell the fake ones.. Rose

[ROSALIND]

This is so true...I like the honesty ......A thought provoking piece

[Jack...]

Thanks so much

[Constance Payne]

I am glad this was sent to me via read request.
I try desperately hard to ensure that what I write is my own but I know that there are times that I will mimic others as I have read so much in my life time. On that note, your point is well taken as I have had things swiped from myself a time or two.
Constance Payne is a Pen name (having been given to me as a Pet name by my mother RIP) Karman is my given name.....Nice to meet you Jack, look forward to reading more of your works.

[Jack...]

Thank you Karman, this is not my usual style, but it was something that needed to be said at the time. I appreciate you stopping by to read and leaving such nice comments.

[Becky C Strukamp]

Tate sent me this read request and I was most honored to read your poem. You compose such truths, realities and awareness. The title so fitting and the picture as well. Sad that there exists those who steal like a thief in the night of others creativity. A remarkable write.

[Jack...]

Thanks so very much Becky. I was hoping you would stop by sometime and read some of my work. I appreciate your kind comments. This poem was actually prompted by an email I recieved from Tate. Thank you so very much for reading.

[Becky C Strukamp]

You are most welcome. The pleasure was all mine and the kind words well deserved!

[hundi]

to steal someone's work is an offensive slap to an artist , good job

[Jack...]

Thanks so much

[Patricia B. Hepler]

...' Changing names like underwear
Faces forged for free
Taking poets renderings
Nothing but a thief...'

Bravo, Jack! We should all speak as loudly...
~pat

[Jack...]

Thank you so much

[Baby Ricochet]

Plagiarism!!! The disease of the WC. Great rhymes, meter and flow as always. Jack my man you are the master.

[Jack...]

Thanks you so much sir. I appreciate it.

[Relic]

This poem means more to me than you know. Excellent writing. I also applaud you.

[Jack...]

Thank you sir and yes I have heard of your past troubles.

[Relic]

You're welcome Jack. Yeah, stuff happens sometimes.