(zombie - a will-less and speechless human in the West Indies...
Merriam-Webster Collegiate® Dictionary)
how come
Caricom
take so long
to come
when Haiti
on the ground
and under the ground
and how come
Caricom
was waiting
on Caricom
to know if to come
and when to come
with their crumb
and their gum
and how come
when Caricom
finally come
they couldn't land
'cause Uncle Sam
done come
with food and gun
to take control
above the ground
and on the ground
and underground
tell me how come
when the help come
it take so long
to reach some
on the ground
and under the ground
and how come
Comte Dracula
now come
and beseech
the rest of the leeches
to release their chokehold
on the neck of the victim
on the ground
and under the ground
how come
Caricom
Copyright ©2010 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
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