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Open Poetry #34

Idiot's Rent

The Jackal
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since 1999-08-13

Posts 426
Springfield, Massachusetts U.S.A

0 posted 2005-01-10 05:40 PM

There may never come a time
when I will thirst for blood
But I am blood thirsty just the same
I don’t believe I am someone you should pet,
     Even in your kind and curious way
I have no small revolt to offer you
   I feel star·struck   paying the idiot's rent

There is no more reason to quench my thirst
So I think I should just Suffer the rent
How much longer can you carry on?
Why must they keep us from our acceptance..?
Above and Beyond    Below and Across
From this height all does not seem so lost
  Now we all share each other's shadow
  Now we all share the Idiot's rent

New lovers are nervous and tender, but smash everything. For the heart is an organ of fire

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

1 posted 2005-01-10 08:29 PM

I'm not quite sure what to say here, but I did want to let you know that I'd been here and given this some thought.

Can't say that I understood it, as it seemed to swing from extremes pendulum-ike -- rather as though the poem itself would like to deny its own existance at times.

And actually, that's rather what I liked about it. (I don't intend that as sly and unkindly either)

Idiot's Rent I do understand, and that is where I meander farther in my thoughts than is comfy, as I tend to think we pay the idiot's rent for the comfort of ourselves more than the idiot.

Anyhow, enjoyed the ponder.

Thanks

DavePage
Member Elite

since 2003-12-21

Posts 2917

2 posted 2005-01-11 06:18 PM

Vibrant, alive, kicking

Yes

Dave

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