Open Poetry #23 |
Alabama Black Shadow Blues |
D.Lester Young Senior Member
since 2001-12-08
Posts 1219Austin, Tx |
I got the Alabama black shadow blues For no matter what I do The cloud of despair floods in To claim something of nothing The more I make the faster Someone figures out how to take it And the blues of living Sinks its fangs in me In a room of gloom Which grows smaller with every bill The computer sings its lonely tune As the wall cries in such a melody Yeah, I got the Alabama black shadow blues That suffocates the minds will to smile In all those moody blues stepping all over you Leaving you feeling like a Enron 401 account Yeah, I would be better of being broke That way I would have some money And Alabama Power would not Be turning of the power to a dream Or a Chrysler dealership that tunes up your truck With new spark plugs When the old ones were only a week old Doing a diagnostic on it for big bucks Not even doing the complete package Yeah I never felt so low As to deal with corporate American And their creative accounting Billing us into slavery What am I to say anything? But just a poet with the blues Awaiting Uncle Sam to punish me more Saying your postage is past due In a retirement going so negative That I get the social security blues That will not even buy me city water I will be taxed on negative gains But the Alabama black shadow blues Will find some words To set me at peace with my small space So I can get a restless sleep tonight Of American fantasies free of leeches For the government has not figured out a way To tax my black shadow words yet But the corporate politicians Are thinking about big business Of taxing the blues Thought: If we got rid of every corporate politician and ended creative manipulation, corporate America would be naked. They would shrivel up to their birthday suits and have nothing to show! My dark clouds are real and I wish I could use my 401 account to pay my bills, before they disappears in a dust storm that claims my body. I had $200,000 5 years ago it is now half that. In 5 years when I collect it I will not be able to pay an Alabama Power bill or an inflated Chrysler dealership’s creative diagnostic charge. Take big business out of government. If they can not pay their bills now, why should we subsidize them with our money? Let them become broke like the rest of us. My pennies in the love of this country will someday make a difference. Blessings in the blues that made this country cry in its glorious heritage. D.Lester Young 10/24/2002 Tuscaloosa, AL Copyright © D.Lester Young (White Eagle poetry) |
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the_loner_23 Member Ascendant
since 2002-06-08
Posts 5479Jacksonville, Florida, USA |
Wonderfully written Cold hands means a warm heart |
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garysgirl
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
This is a very intense poem with lots of very strong truths. I liked it, too. Thanks for sharing your "blues" with us. Love to All, Ethel |
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Toerag Member Ascendant
since 1999-07-29
Posts 5622Ala bam a |
I know these blues....but....all I can say is "Roll Tide" this weekend.... |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
I know them, too... even if mine are a different state. *S* And while I'll join Toe in saying Roll Tide, I hope another Alabama team gets flattened by the superior Tigers from Bayou Country! LOL Great work, DL! [This message has been edited by suthern (10-25-2002 03:27 PM).] |
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