First Poem for the Time & Space Lounge
Here is a poem I wrote this very morning. And now I shall share it with the world on the Time & Space Lounge:
WHAT'S IN A NAME
When the new Oak Park high school opened
the school board decided to let
us eighth-graders choose the mascot
The finalists were The Oak Park Tokers, The Oak Park 69ers, and The Oak Park Cop Killaz
The school board conferred
and announced that the winning bid was
The Oak Park Denny's $5.99 Grand Slammers
and that a football ticket stub
would be good for half-off a Grand Slam Menu item at Denny's
with the purchase of a second Grand Slam Menu item
of greater or equal value
It was a bit ridiculous
but we live in Oak Park
a town with no oaks and no parks
4 Comments:
Major props to the Oak Creek Cop Killaz... Ice T musta been popular in those days.
That doesn't rhyme.
For serious, though. I love the presence of poetry on TSL, and would like to see more. If it weren't for the fact that writing poetry is like riding a bicycle in sand for me, I'd be all over it. Anyone feeling bold enough to bust out some short-short fiction?
Oh, but Mr. Chair, do you not see how easy it is?..."like riding a bicycle through sand"--there's a poet at work right there!!
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