-a poem written by Mickey and pasted on a picture.
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As If It Weren’t Enough…
THE WISDOM OF THE LITTLE FOOL
A fool can’t really sum up all of life in a sentence.
But a fool tries.
A fool can’t really say something in immortal words.
Because a fool dies.
A fool can’t really do the job of the wise.
But never-the-less, the fool applies.
But a fool can write a really dumb poem,
And let it sit to draw some flies.
When the Old Mind Wanders…
When the old mind wanders…
They tell you you’re just too slow.
But thoughts like mine drift everywhere,
And the edges of the universe… are a place to go.
Maybe I should write in red.
And argue with the voices
That rhyme inside my head.
And break the rhyme scheme
Here and there
Because of what they said.
Or maybe I should write in blue
Because I’ve been thinking in the nude
And laying all my secrets bare
Which really might be rude.
But the old mind wanders…
In the form of a poem,
And breaks and squanders
Tallest waves in mere foam.
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Crazy Poems by an Insane Poet
I Let My Dog Write This Poem
MMMM-woof!
Smell that? Definitely Cat poop.
I love that smell.
And what’s that smell over there?
I mean right there!
Quit pulling on my leash! I have to smell it!
Ahh! Bird poop from a pigeon with a fatal disease.
And over there! Yes, stop holding me back!
Oh! A dead bird! Yum! Icky dead things taste great!
But it was a pigeon.
MMM-woof? Can dogs get pigeon diseases?
Why on Earth Did I Turn into a Nudist?
It is so embarrassing to admit it
I have no clothes to fit it
That feel as good as going bare
And wearing not even underwear
And the wind and the sun on my naked skin
Open my heart and let the sunshine in
I’ve never really felt so alive
As I feel while talking the naturist jive
And living life as a naked man
And doing the things that Adam can
How can it be such a stupid thing?
That makes my heart to dance and sing?
Thar Be Pirates, Yaaar!
The Pirates o’ Bank o’ Merricka has stabbed me wallet
And make thar monies by stealin’
And whooda thunk it? But the Pirates be many blokes
Who sells insurance or credick-card akkounts
And compounds the fie!-nance charges
At twelvety-hunnert thousing per cent
And makes thar monies the ol’ fashioned way
By hooks and by crooks but mosty by stealin’
And so… There you have it. Three poems about things that recently made sanity a bit harder to define when looking in the old mirror. I am not saying I have gone insane, but I do think I may be on the right road to go over the hill and around a couple curves to find the place where you have to go to find it.
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The Ixcanixian Interstellar Bad Poetry Challenge
A while back I transmitted a weird alien poetry contest through this blog to the people of Earth. It was a contest for bad poetry. And obviously we only write good poetry on this planet as no entries from the native clothes-wearing primates of this planet were submitted. If you are unclear about the contest of which I speak, here is the link;
The Interstellar Bad Poetry Challenge
While no Earth primate entries were actually submitted (Magilla Gorilla’s entry was disqualified as he is a cartoon character and copyrighted by Hanna Barbera) we did get some entries from illegal aliens. Their contest entries are submitted here for your perusal. However, it is bad poetry. By definition, if you don’t have your Galaxian bad-poetry-reading glasses handy, you should proceed with extreme caution.
This first entry is from a random Space Goon. It is exceptionally bad poetry, and apparently the Goon who wrote it has no individual name. He appears to be one of many dumped on this planet by interstellar authorities in order to prevent them from doing any real damage to planets that matter.
Goon Verse
Goon-goon-goon
Goon is good
Goon will come
And live in your house
Goon will come
And eat your mouse
Goon-goon-goon
Why you no like Goon?
The second entry I intend to inflict on you is a very weird entry I got in container that was apparently filled with radio-active foof gas. While foof gas is apparently a deadly poison in most of the Milky Way, it is non-toxic to humans from Earth. The perpetrator of this poem would only identify himself (or herself… or itself) as Bing-bing the Laser Guy.
I Will Kill You
Bing-bing is hiding on Earth!
How can you not understand this?
If you publish my writings,
And allow the authorities to discover my presence,
I will come to your house and evaporate your head!
The rhythm of that poem is very poor, and the rhyme scheme is non-existent. But it is supposed to be bad poetry, after all. So I suppose it has just as much chance of winning as the rest of them.
The Mookian Space Elf submitted not only a bad poem, but 8 X 10 glossies of himself. He watches endless hours of PBS kid shows, educational cartoons, and inexplicable Boo Bahs and Teletubbies. I think he’s convinced himself that this contest is somehow an audition for a kids’ show. He claims to be able to sing and dance, as well as be funny, educational, and relentlessly cute.
Hire Me!!!
Ain’t I cute?
Ain’t I sweet?
I’ll give you diabetes so bad,
It will surely eat your feet!
Love me!
Dove me!
And give me so much money
That I’ll laugh so hard I pee!
Yes, if that is poetry, it is really bad poetry.
The final entry is from Ralph the Inexplicable. This amazing being has been on Earth since before there were dinosaurs, so it is possible he is more of an Earthling than we are. He is reputed to be incredibly wise, but his poetry was also hard to translate into English since it was all in ones and zeros. And I don’t speak binary code. So my translation may be less of a bad poem by Ralph and more of a bad poem made up by me.
Song of Slortcherill
Mee tok funni
Mee tok sloe
Leesen two mee
Ann emjoiy da show
Wheen Slortcherill sings
Da winners all brayk
Da kidoinks all screem
Anna moofins all bayk
I was warned that if I translated that poem with proper English spelling, it would fill your head with so much “wisdom”, your brain would melt. So I present it here according to Ralph’s specifications. I did read two of the lines with proper English spellings and felt my head grow distinctly hotter. So I wouldn’t risk thinking too hard about what the proper spellings are if I were you.
None of these entries will probably win the contest. They are all certainly bad poetry. But I am fairly certain that given the competition from this part of the Milky Way Galaxy worse does, in fact, exist out there… somewhere. And may you never be unfortunate enough to find it.
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Daily Magic
Daily Magic
The world all around us is magic…
And magic encompasses all,
But sadly the world is not permanent
And tomorrow the darkness may fall.
So here is the magic of daylight
The sun has arisen from pall
And at least for a moment the true light
Is the sun as it voices its call.
Never Explain
You should never have to explain a poem…
It is there for all to see…
And whether ’tis sick, or happy, or bad…
It is its own reason to be.
Never Explain… The Sequel
You should never have to explain a joke…
Whether stupid, or ribald, or punny…
Because reasons all melt with explaining…
And, if you do, it’s not really funny.
Pearls in the Dark
Swim down into deepening darkness.
Do you truly want to find a pearl?
Fish around in oysters and dark places.
Risk your fingers, your hand… hold your breath.
The deeper you dive, the more you risk, the brighter the pearl.
Write This One Too, Doofus!
Where did these poems suddenly come from?
You are not a poet…
And you already know it…
You meant to write one…
You wrote five…
How was so much doggerel in you?
Goofy wisdom…
Silly rhythm…
Random rhyme?
You’ve been writing these poems all your life…
Every action…
Every footstep…
Every joke…
Is a pearl from the oyster of your soul…
Some are beautiful…
Some are ugly…
All have value…
So don’t question the magic, you fool.
The Interstellar Bad Poetry Challenge
The Ixcanixian Cultural Ambassador from the Squeelix Sector of the Planet Ixcanix sent me an e-mail about his planet’s newest idea for a cultural exchange. He calls it the “Ixcanixian Spleegle Gorn Vorpaloop” which translates to the “Ixcanixian Interstellar Bad Poetry Challenge”. At least, it does if I am conjugating the verb “Vorpaloop” correctly. It is difficult because you have to drop the silent “y” before adding the “aloop” without causing it to explode. I know it is probably a very bad idea to present it here on this planet, but he talked me into it by promising to promote my novel Catch a Falling Star on his homeworld and at least two other planets in the Bugeye Federation.
Here are the rules for the alien poetry contest;
- Entries can only come from planets in the Orion Spur of the Sagittarius Spiral Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. (So, for you non-astronomers out there, we on Earth do qualify.)
- All poets must be less intelligent than the Mud-Eaters of Paralaxos IV as they will be employed as judges of what poetry is truly bad. (Again, Earth qualifies as we have recently elected Trump and also allow Nigel Farage of Great Britain to continue to exist.)
- Entries must not be so long that the total weight of letters exceed critical mass and form black holes in the intergalactic servers when uploaded.
- Vogons need not apply. Their poetry is so bad, they would automatically win, causing the death of trillions of bad poetry readers in the galaxy.
- Entries must not cause thermonuclear reactions with cesium.
- Please refrain from confusing good poetry with bad poetry. The Vornloos of Talos XII are looking for poetry they can weaponize, and no one wants a poetry contest winner to suddenly create World Peace on Talos XII. That would be bad for the galaxy as a whole in ways that are very difficult to explain.
A sample of interstellar bad poetry is included here to inspire the kind of poetry we seek.
Ratzen Bargle’s Bisketoon (a love poem by Touperary Kloob, Poet Laureate of Antares VI)
Ratzen Bargle was a Doofus,
From the planet Rufus-Ploofiss,
And he had a lovely bride,
With a head not tall, but twice as wide.
She had three eyes and two were green.
She had the loveliest fleen you’ve ever seen.
And as they sat ‘neath a wayward moon,
He kissed his lovely bisketoon.
Immediately before naught was said,
She bit off his tiny three-eyed head.
And then she ate him bones and all
With sauce that really becomes the fall.
And so it is on Rufus-Ploofiss,
That males all die with one last roof-kiss.
Because they sit under wayward moons
With their lovely, hungry bisketoons.
Should you have the unfortunate urge to participate in this senseless and probably suicidal poetry contest, you are welcome to offer four-line poems in the comment section, or email longer poems to Mickey at mbeyer51@gmail.com. I will attempt to transmit the worst offers to the Ixcanixians as soon as I get my interstellar flooglebeeder transmitting again. I will also post winners in a future alien poetry blog.
I have been warned that prizes range from instant execution by the Lizard Lords of Galtorr Prime to a beat up copy of Mickey’s 2012 novel Catch a Falling Star. So, good luck with the bad poetry.
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60’s Rock and Roll (Poems made of Memory)
- Pete Townshend is Now Old
I heard it and didn’t believe
Who heard it, you say, and then leave?
Yes they heard it and didn’t believe
Who sang it, you say, for reprieve?
Don’t shoot me, they sang it, believe!
Who told it, the pinball retrieved?
Yes they told it, and now I am peeved
Who wrote it and must be believed?
Yes they wrote it and made me believe
A pinball wizard, his song has grown cold
And finally they sang it and now it is sold
And a generation loved and laughed and were bold
But both Pete and Roger are now really old!
- Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Heart
They were the soul of the movement
And love did surround them
The little girls screamed and that’s how
We all found them
With a real nowhere man
Living in a nowhere land
And poor Elinor Rigby’s lost love
There were one, two, three steps
Right down Penny Lane
Blue meanies and lovers regret in the main
And light shines upon us from somewhere above
But the thing I regret beyond yesterday
Is the fact that love grew and then went away
And in the darkness a shot rang out…
And John’s voice was silent…
As tears replaced cheers and grew dark all about.
- Monkees and Mayhem
I saw her face, and I’m a believer
I laughed when she laughed and never deceived her
On the last train to Clarksville in the quietest car
I watched her bright antics and loved from afar
The song they were singing was really quite frantic
And never could I be quite so pedantic
To tell the daydream believer her show was now over
And move on to leave her for a dog, name of Rover.
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Chicken Soup Time (a twelve-line poem of recovery)
There comes a time when life really stinks,
A day when the life force grows green-brown and sinks,
Yes, I am ill and my every breath kinks,
And I cough and I burp and the end of the nose pinks,
So, I gather together under the covers,
The rotten parts of me over which the fly hovers,
And cook them in heat of the dreams of old lovers,
And fantasy dreams, whose richness discovers…
The stories that make the sum of my life,
And memories of people who’ve hurt me with strife,
And good things and great things and details all mixed,
And stew while I’m sleeping til things are all fixed.
The Secret Behind Poetry (a Poem about Poems)
Poetry is life
Like life, it is sometimes fat and over-gorged
Like life, it is sometimes lean and starving
Like life, it sometimes rhymes
But that is only simile
Simile is not reality
Reality is metaphor
Metaphor is life
Like life, it has to mean something
Like life, it has rhythm, pace, and resonance
Like life, it sometimes rhymes
But this one doesn’t rhyme
And it may not really mean something
And it certainly isn’t reality
So, poet, you don’t know life!
And life is poetry
So you really don’t know poetry
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