GUILT AND MISERY

The pattern is clear: rosy moods produce dark poems, dark moods rosy poems.

I smile because...

I smile because...

I smile...

I smile because, what else is there?

Post-confidence

Post-failure

Post-mistake

Will return to this pool of vomit

Post-great-mistake

Post-ambition-vaunting

Post-triumph

Post-success, success, success, success

Was how I was

All that promise

And all so effortless!

The trajectory of a winner winning

Win, win, win, win, win after win

Looks, of course

Born with

Brandoesque

Intellect

Spaskyesque

Flair

Born with

Byronesque

Drive

Yawn, ditto

By Ron

Byron

Buy Ronesque

Dictator gene, son has the dictator gene

Insufferable child learns tactics

Studies the slithery trails of great men

Post-great-mistake

The loose strand

The weakness

O Plutarch!

This weakness in me

I am marching my army up the Rhine

Blindheim

I am spread out flat

On my great maps

On a hill in Austria

Austerlitz

I am! I am! I am!

Me!

I! I!

I alone betrayed my destiny

That you wept

You, not I

The tears of a woman?

Such common rain

A few shards of heart underfoot

Scrunch, scrunch

One such as I...

What am I?

What am I not?

Who am I now?

Of course they love me

Why would they not?

They know alright

And so they love me

Their sunlight

How they love their sunlight!

How I am their lives

One such as I should never love

Never, never, never love

Bottle them

Imagine that

My tears

All three of them

Bottled

Swoon, swoon

Post-great-mistake

I smile, as what else is there?

O you!

O you, you, you!

I am, o so, so sorry

For this betrayal

This weakness undoes me

This one little weakness

I should never, never, never, never have loved

Yawn, ditto

Dear Thalia,

I have been thinking things through, thinkerty-think

This should prick her

Where's my pen?

Let's taunt her a lot more

For she must feel the full measure of my hyena

Misery

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[mick weller]

You been at the `Finnegan's Wake` again?

`alright` - I know it's deliberate but...
`the slithery trails of great men` - nice!
`Oon a hill in Austria` - do I get the feeling you intend this?
`Such common rain

A few shards of heart underfoot

Scrunch, scrunch` - ooo, well nasty!

The know alright - they?



`This should prick her

Where's my pen?`
My pen is where? Then maybe not ha ha!

...I should give yourself a few minutes next time you come in from work..?
good fun piece!
cheers

[Lauren Xena Campbell]

Blimey! This is powerful. So much going on my head is spinning. Wonderful write!

[RHEA CROSLEY]

Very cleaver a belly full. I must digest now.

[TL Boehm]

If I played with words the way you do, I'd have a foamy mess...but you - you concoct the most delicous poetry...spilling from one subject to another...very much the way the mind wanders, if unedited. Well done.

[TamiViolet]

This is brilliant work, Ron. But two things really stand out for me : a) the power of the verse as I felt you in this one ...your intensity and the manner in which you actually create a mood, each reader I'm sure feeling just a little something different... b) The final five lines... the sarcasm...the irony you instill as you send a vivid message to your audience...a truly magnificent work of art!
X

[Hedra Helix]

oh you slippery creature you. wherever you go its with ease sir and I am forced to read it twice to try to learn how you do so. seriously one day you page will be my schooling. look for the apple. great unexpected turns in this. Super shocks. loves it.

[W.k.kortas]

Fine, you go about taunting the muse, then...wonderfully paced, the short lines a nice reflection of the moodiness and brooding tone of the piece--plus you don't see Brando, Spassky, and Byron lumped together every day. Very solid piece of work.

[Gandré]

now this is my favorite of yours. -And I know what is the raving on about. Excuse me, I said never, but now just a poem here and there.

[Gary H]

This is interesting. Seems almost like a selection of random extracts from around the world of WC. I've seen all these words before, maybe even written so many myself. Does this explains the feeling of guilt, from borrowing other peoples misery?

You are clever, you are smart, a new formula has found it's way into the scientific laboratory of Orlando.....time to be in awe......

[Mr. Deft Diction]

Great, great, great piece! I would really love to hear this spoken, considering the different stages/phases that you take us through with this. There's sarcasm, cynacism, guilt and misery; pain and regret. Places to rest and laugh (or cry).

A man's life....in order to survive, you gotta learn to deal with regret.

Dope piece, man. A favorite for me.

[Emily B]

The words have it. . . .all of it.