POEM: "It's Hard To Explain Sacrifice"

I don't know if that's really "the world as it is". He typically makes these large claims. Just the other night I saw him stumbling out of a bar, pursued by a jeering gang of motleys. Who knows what he really said? 

                                                                                       

That's the world as it is —

Though I know surrender better

The loss of dignity easier to explain

Letting go the unconscionable moment

As if it followed a straight accident

Every bruise of the face temporary

The mostly regenerative story

That doesn't explain sacrifice either

Or alas make any tears flow uphill.

                                                                                     

Hard to know this bug of sacrifice

In a muscle world that's full of pain

That hides every single bloody other step

And so why even mention it —

Mosquitoes messing about the trees

You'd kill them all if you could

Not one thought of your thousand stories

Like the one where the damsel was distressed

And then she trimmed your moustache.

                                                                                    

Maybe it's the children declaiming

A daily sacrifice, watching and waiting

Their conduct won't surrender

Twenty questions about an ordinary fate

How they jump for the long home page

How of any 2 people, one's the sucker —

This portable science I too endure

Which one or two might call the sacrifice

After all the stories you tell yourself.

 

                                                                                                                                              

©ROB SCHACKNE (2009)

 

10:16 - Saturday 18 April 2009 - post comment

Howard Cosell

"Your life will be temperated."
"The portable science I too endure."

Speaking of Sports
How 'bout them Cubbies?

jgskill - 15:27 - Monday 13 April 2009

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Reply to JGSKILL

Fonsie OK!

Edited by borisknack on Monday 13 April 2009 at 02:47

borisknack - 15:46 - Monday 13 April 2009

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Anonymous - 17:10 - Monday 13 April 2009

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Hirsuite

I liked the line about the moustache and the trimming damsel. You don't spot many of those
around China ( the former ) but I have had my blackheads diligently squeezed with a tortuous tiny instrument. True confessions.

Like the duos of con artist and sucker, straight man and fall guy, I guess I had to sit in the masochist seat while the lady played Sade. "Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you."

Edited by borisknack on Monday 13 April 2009 at 23:16

Greg - 12:08 - Tuesday 14 April 2009

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Schultz and Dooley

Painted on the brick
Two steins saying,
"Come by our brewery
and watch us make love."
Damn! I felt like I got clubbed by Utica.
U.C., or maybe you don't.

Who took these hillbilly bitches
and made them think they need
to hum stick for a joint?
Who took these other
hillbilly bitches to L.A.
and made them think
it's O.K. to stick a dude
and let him ponder
the Reynolds Aluminum Horse?
I wonder if that's why
I need reading glasses.

Sitting at a bar
a poor sad chick
told me about her crack.
She was crying.
I said, "You don't need that shit.
Ah. . . smoke a little grass."
I asked her if she was alone.
Bah-Bum!
We went out to her car.
I got pulled out of her car
by one angry dude
screaming about my smoking
that crack shit with his old lady.
He had steel-toes.
I had to crawl under a pick-up
to escape his unbridled wrath.
Yeah, crack sucks.
You'll probably hurt others
about as much as yourself.

Me, I'm immune to the shit.
A dude once said to me
'Hey, eat these. They're just
bullshit speed."
After I got them down he said
"That's what PCP is, "bullshit speed."
When I woke-up, I moved 1500 miles away.

Sounds pretty white trash to me.
Uncle dealt with 2 PhD physics
candidates who got drunk
and filtered anti-freeze through bread.
Now you got 2 blind PhD. candidates
with 2 kidneys.
I'm not sure who told me about the guy
from John Hopkins who tore his eyes
out on LSD. He was back a year later
becoming a blind psychiatrist.

Sure, scientific method and all that
"Art, music, writing", doesn't seem so bad
after all. I mean, I wonder if there is
more ozone at the top of Niagara Falls
or the bottom.

Used to eat barrels.


--JGSKILL



Edited by borisknack on Saturday 9 January 2010 at 21:41

jgskill - 12:15 - Tuesday 5 May 2009

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