And Why Does the Green Polar Bear Speak?

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Teen Poetry #2

And Why Does the Green Polar Bear Speak?

Ryan
Member

since 1999-06-10

Posts 297
Kansas

0 posted 1999-12-29 11:37 PM

Yes, yes, just a reassurance that I'm not an overly bitter youth.

And Why Does the Green Polar Bear Speak?

They eat their mushy tator tots
In a bowl full of
Water from the sewer
  That they've
     Bathed
In for the last six months
While I wonder where all
  The famous people
Like
Jimmy Hoffa have gone to be buried.
    Then the people ask me why funky
Is a word
That they use
   When they light the
         Fires of their own
Funeral pyre,
And I respond that the battery of life is
Nearly empty.
      But should I tell
    All the people searching for coins
   Under their communist couch
   That all the world is funky,
      knowing that only cool cats
And daddy-O's like me can dig it?
Or should I let the
Green polar bear, in its toga of repression speak its
Lies while all of the doughnuts are
   Eating the peace?

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
—Jack Kerouac

Astraea
Member

since 1999-11-09

Posts 378
California! Yeah! Okay, I'm done now

1 posted 1999-12-29 11:49 PM

Me like! Very nice. That's good that you're not bitter.

~Astraea

"Sometimes stars can only be seen in darkness."

"Sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things."

SuGaR*sTaR
New Member

since 1999-09-19

Posts 7
louisville,ky

2 posted 1999-12-30 02:12 AM

this poem is so insane. and so great.

Marilyn
Member Elite

since 1999-09-26

Posts 2621
Ontario, Canada

3 posted 1999-12-31 01:25 AM

I am pleased to meet you Ryan. I have to admit this is the first I have read of you. I am duely impressed. I enjoy reading poetry that makes me think and you have accomplished that with this piece. I found it both deep and amusing. I am also very glad that you are not bitter.

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