Impatience for the Inheritance (Draft 1)

August 11, 2012 at 9:25 am · Filed under Impatience for the Inheritance ·Tagged dark spirit, devil, doug, douglas gilbert, free verse, free verse poetry, inheritance, ladder of success, mojoepoe, poem, poet, poetry, séance, smoke alarm, toast, versely, whiney, whining children, Xyiwa, yrteop

The Impatience for the Inheritance(2)

Her whiney children
walked under the ladder of success
and it fell on them
but she had a will
and they couldn’t wait

The séance went well:
a dark spirit suggested,
“Give her a smoke alarm.”

Their old lady
burnt her toast as usual
no problem

But the damn piercing alarm
threatened to embarrass her
in the whole neighborhood.

She climbed a ladder
to turn off the whine,
fell off and died.

Her whining children
had wine. The County
blamed the ladder.
The devil made
a toast to progress.
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Her whiney children
walked under the ladder of success
and it fell on them,
but she had a will.

The séance went well:
a dark spirit suggested,
“Give her a smoke alarm.”

The old lady
burnt her toast as usual
no problem

But the damn piercing alarm
threatened to embarrass her
in the whole neighborhood.

She climbed a ladder
to turn off the whine,
fell off and died.

He whining children
had wine. The County
blamed the ladder.
The devil made
a toast to progress.

— Douglas Gilbert

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