A Better Place Called Home

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. - Thoreau

caught in a headache of a twister

with crystal balls and monkey wings

faith, flesh and a few other escoteric things

traveling lightly

my footprints barely discernable

they lay their snares on faux, yellow brick roads maintained by munchkins

seeking to condemn

creating sheer and utter mayhem

swallowing their own phlegm

not realizing that i'm not like them

picking flowers for the stem

as i click the heels of worn-out, ruby slippers

so i can get back home to auntie Em

a place with heart, brains and courage

forgetting them

and their phony, tarnished diadem

Author's Note

"I always tell the truth, even when I lie." - Al Pacino as Tony Montana in the restaurant scene of the movie Scarface.

Reviews

[Poetic Beauty]

I love this reference to wizard of oz and the phony things happening in this delusion. Other than Toto, the flying monkeys and horse of many colors I wasn’t fond of the movie, oh and of course I liked the wicked witch of the west