If you got to live inside a video game world, which one would you choose
Ghosts are something
I wish they were real
but
my belief is that their
existence is as likely as
an ethical oil company
reading from the bible of
the masses
preaching maximize shareholder
wealth
despite the overwhelming
ghostly evidence when walking
through the kitchen and a steel can
opener my wife gave me on
our tenth wedding anniversay
fell to the ground with little
rhyme nor reason as if
it were pushed by a ghost
Accountability is the current
much needed catch phrase
so I ask you this
please fact check this as an
unreliable work of sparkling
ineptitude in poetic structure as
we enter the ever shrinking wall of
Illusion between fact and fiction
The term non-Fiction never seemed
self evident to me.
I honestly wish there was
such a thing as ghosts as
when I die I certainly do not
want to be one however being two
would be cool as to play the
devils advocate
Part of the devils image problem
Is that he never had somebody
who was an advocate for him as
The concept of heaven and
hell now well endowed in the old
testament of the maximization
of shareholder wealth created
for the purpose of deferring
a persons just rewards to another
profit center and ledger filled
with glaring mixed metaphors
As I may have been visited by many
ghosts who accidentally ran
into me thinking I was
the person across the hall
in college who secretly was
in love with me, but couldn’t find
my phone number because
they hadn’t perfected cell phones
and I didn’t live in a dorm
If I did, I would’ve taken
pictures on something
referred to as a handy in German
A term I find quite perfect
and I was uncomfortable
for a while
Speaking German with anybody in
the street because they speak like
this poem should hear to your ears
non sensical bordering on brilliant and
If you would like I can switch
to German and dangle participles
and remain logistically correct
Aber nein
As lightning bugs have no idea
why there are fewer and fewer
lightning bugs in the world because
they live life with out having to
learn the past tense of any language
with the exception of lightning bugs
from Germany
and I can’t say I have ever seen a
German Lightning bug
and I have ambitions goals
and a vivid imagination and I think
a German speaking lightning bug
movie where the lightning bugs
are portrayed as ghosts held
captive in a child’s marshmallow
jar punctuated with airholes
could be the next Minion like
super admittedly cute kids market
Blockbuster.
Do you remember that place
If the past met the future,
you could rent Minions at
Blockbuster
Vintage blockbusters are now
subway sandwich shops
and are not shown at your local
Cinamax and one day
I need to get around to seeing
Titanic
as if a ghost we’re gonna
show up anywhere
it would be emerging
from the base of the ocean
from the ruins of the Titanic
I think Casper ruined that illusion.
And how did the word gonna
sneak into English language?
Are you on the right bitching about
securing our borders
there is loud muted
silence when a word
like gonna gets through customs.
And then the devils
advocate returns as a hockey
player from New Jersey riding
the Zamboni machine on an ever
sinking glacier inhabited by a
Polar bear that just moved here
from New York
his name is Gus and what’s
troubling Gus is that nothing
absolutely nothing troubles us
as
glaciers melt like twenty minute
oldpopsickle purchased
from an ice cream vendor
trying to make ends meet because
Inflation devoured his retirement check
that he toiled his entire life
with blistered fingers and his aching back
chasing the ghost that is the American
Dream.
I don’t play video games and never have other than supervising the kids. So I offer this random poke and a glimmer of hope at the American Dream.
I would love to hear you opinion as well