Just a free write. Enjoy.
Category: Short Stories & Poetry
Terrible Poem: “Oh, I’m a Gonna Go!”🎶
Oh, I’m a Gonna Go!
I’m a gonna go out where the wind durst blow
Sand in my knickers and mud in my toes
Where cow pies rightly disappear and the crickets eat them dangburned rusted bandoliers!
Where the guns don’t get to shootin’,
Where there’s no high brow falutin’
And everyone dances ’till half past three…
If you need me, why that there where’s I’ll be…!
In the Land of Absolution…!
-A.R. Clayton
There’s too much fun to be had at this week’s Terrible Poetry contest. Have fun and keep writing. ✏️
Author: We Can be Captains (Millennial Free Verse) 🧭
Falling asleep, deep-deep-deep. Babysitting another adult, two–three– generations removed from me.
“We’ll get that to you in a week.” I scoff. A week being sixty days, you mean. But I’m too clever, too snug, to call out the lies, the tales your fingers drum-on. After all, no good would come of’…such unrepentant honesty.
The very oxygen would be stolen from your gills.
No comeuppance allowed upstream in the laws of generational physics. So I wait, floating still in the current, until your ropes are cut and you’ll float away, while the brine and salt wash my eyes and hair. And you go to be judged at your sunset day.
Deep. Deep. Deep. When will these felons with blinders retire to the sea…?
We can be captains, we can be heroes of the elite.
A.R. Clayton 