Rhymes with Orange
I waited for the day
they would lower the shade of the color
of the tombstones in my neighbors eyes
from elmo
to clear , eliminate . fear
I wanted us to return
to the country we had known before
and stop being forced to focus on things beyond ourselves
to rejoice in laws about sidewalks
and better schools
But they never did
and that left me here, with my laptop
and socks , here at hartsfield
trying to find the word that rhymes with orange
instead I got a paying job
as the barcode tattoo on your arm
on the right, a devil with a socket in his head
and the left is an angel with wings and sad eyes
and underground we do it in the basement
just listen for that bass kick
See.
If I were the president
I'd kill him with my bible
maybe even use nanotechnology
like linus and lucy on adrenaline
I'd spiral black clounds of dust
powered by transmission
and with horror
he would discover the lump in his arm
is ADSX
and people on the river are happy to give
the new machines burrowing into soft flesh
replace carbon silicon oxide
relax. Osama
it just feels like a mild cold
one that
just doesn't seem to want to go away
you know. we thought
every now and then you'd probably want us
to do something
nice
and easy
but we never do things nice. and easy
so we're gonna start off
With bin laden
singing when he lays down his sword
before the feet of george
then we're going to make you feel tonguetied
and we're gonna finish
with 911 greeting cards
that rhyme with orange.
and end with george
proud mary keep on burning
the star on blue the red and white
hold back or give it your all might
everyone loves the pilot except the crew
the chase plane puts the airline in its sights ..
the fighter pilot pulls the trigger
air to air missile drops from below
an evil dildo with wings
keepers of the blue
speak to me only with your eyes
we heard them say
before they died.
from someone's cellphone
they didn't know they had left on
and as they dropped from the air
ashes in the wind
we see the torch we all must hold
It's condition elmo
Let's Roll.
they would lower the shade of the color
of the tombstones in my neighbors eyes
from elmo
to clear , eliminate . fear
I wanted us to return
to the country we had known before
and stop being forced to focus on things beyond ourselves
to rejoice in laws about sidewalks
and better schools
But they never did
and that left me here, with my laptop
and socks , here at hartsfield
trying to find the word that rhymes with orange
instead I got a paying job
as the barcode tattoo on your arm
on the right, a devil with a socket in his head
and the left is an angel with wings and sad eyes
and underground we do it in the basement
just listen for that bass kick
See.
If I were the president
I'd kill him with my bible
maybe even use nanotechnology
like linus and lucy on adrenaline
I'd spiral black clounds of dust
powered by transmission
and with horror
he would discover the lump in his arm
is ADSX
and people on the river are happy to give
the new machines burrowing into soft flesh
replace carbon silicon oxide
relax. Osama
it just feels like a mild cold
one that
just doesn't seem to want to go away
you know. we thought
every now and then you'd probably want us
to do something
nice
and easy
but we never do things nice. and easy
so we're gonna start off
With bin laden
singing when he lays down his sword
before the feet of george
then we're going to make you feel tonguetied
and we're gonna finish
with 911 greeting cards
that rhyme with orange.
and end with george
proud mary keep on burning
the star on blue the red and white
hold back or give it your all might
everyone loves the pilot except the crew
the chase plane puts the airline in its sights ..
the fighter pilot pulls the trigger
air to air missile drops from below
an evil dildo with wings
keepers of the blue
speak to me only with your eyes
we heard them say
before they died.
from someone's cellphone
they didn't know they had left on
and as they dropped from the air
ashes in the wind
we see the torch we all must hold
It's condition elmo
Let's Roll.
Comments
This:
to clear , eliminate . fear
is a little unclear, if only because it's "clear-space-comma-space", then "eliminate-space-period-space", and really, that needs to be better organized (spaces removed).
The other thing:
I'd spiral black clounds of dust
"clounds" should be "clouds".
Otherwise? Trippy damn poem. I like it. The images are vivid, grabbing, on occasion visceral. Kudos.
hey emily this is the year you get published.
think.?