(in memory of my father)
how long will mankind
piss against the wind
hang upside-down like bats
to defecate on the Maker
succeeding
only in messing on ourselves
a musician called Shortman
once befuddled me
declaring out of the blue
“this world
is one big shithouse”
then I saw it clear as daylight
birds doing it dogs doing it
fish doing it frogs doing it
flies doing it bats doing it
cows doing it man doing it
politicians doing it priests doing it
to the world
to our minds to our lives
scarab pushing it
is gobhar
in the water in the air
in the forest on the street
in the park on the lawn
on the roof on the floor
in the ceiling on the wall
in our minds in our lives
we are surrounded by it
my father used to say
“if bundle-wood never loose
it never tie good”
Copyright ©2002 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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