growing up absurd
Posted: July 27th, 2014, 6:10 pm
I decided to not write about my childhood anymore
since my hole life is a childhood I will write about
at two I did not know what to do except doodoo
at three I was in my pants full of pee
four was more like it, I lost my first and only dog
I remember a little pond outside of the small house
I lived in with mom and dad a kid squashed a frog
many years later my mom tried to tell me, that
I began hanging out with some strange people down the street
I don't remember doing that, so I don't know how she could
since my mom was a child too, what is a five year old to do
I was kicked around in the sand box by some other bully kid
at six I became a confirmed rebel, when my teacher pointed at me
and blamed me for not following the rules that all the other kids did
around twelve I was kicked out of a movie theater
for not reciting the pledge of grovelling called an allegiance
from that time on a entered into a kind of beatnik dream world
I slowly became aware of girls legs under their dress in release time
religious education, I remember a teacher telling a young girl to
close her legs...I wanted her to leave them open for some reason
about this time I finally became aware of rock and roll music
In the fifties I vaguely liked songs called the purple people eater song
and the witch doctor song, there was another one about leaving
your chewing gum on the bedpost over night, I thought that was alright
and all the while I believe that rock around the clock was playing in my head
at fourteen I kissed a girl of twelve, and learned how to smoke cigarettes
when I was fifteen I wanted to get drunk with my buddies and hang out
the world was about to go through a big shift after the Beatles came on scene
soon I was listening to Dylan singing that everybody must get stones
and not long until I became seventeen I was a pot fiend and took my first trip
on LSD that is, now Ginsberg's Howl made so much sense to me, I saw the best
minds of my generation destroyed by television and mindless conformity
I think I always was a poet because I never quite fit in, and I was good at reading
in fact after I left home at nineteen, I began to read as much poetry as I could
and not long after that I realized that I liked some poetry better then other poetry
It means that I began to navigate through certain poets and writers that held
something that I need to totally comprehend about the human condition
otherwise there would have been no point for me being born to begin with
since my hole life is a childhood I will write about
at two I did not know what to do except doodoo
at three I was in my pants full of pee
four was more like it, I lost my first and only dog
I remember a little pond outside of the small house
I lived in with mom and dad a kid squashed a frog
many years later my mom tried to tell me, that
I began hanging out with some strange people down the street
I don't remember doing that, so I don't know how she could
since my mom was a child too, what is a five year old to do
I was kicked around in the sand box by some other bully kid
at six I became a confirmed rebel, when my teacher pointed at me
and blamed me for not following the rules that all the other kids did
around twelve I was kicked out of a movie theater
for not reciting the pledge of grovelling called an allegiance
from that time on a entered into a kind of beatnik dream world
I slowly became aware of girls legs under their dress in release time
religious education, I remember a teacher telling a young girl to
close her legs...I wanted her to leave them open for some reason
about this time I finally became aware of rock and roll music
In the fifties I vaguely liked songs called the purple people eater song
and the witch doctor song, there was another one about leaving
your chewing gum on the bedpost over night, I thought that was alright
and all the while I believe that rock around the clock was playing in my head
at fourteen I kissed a girl of twelve, and learned how to smoke cigarettes
when I was fifteen I wanted to get drunk with my buddies and hang out
the world was about to go through a big shift after the Beatles came on scene
soon I was listening to Dylan singing that everybody must get stones
and not long until I became seventeen I was a pot fiend and took my first trip
on LSD that is, now Ginsberg's Howl made so much sense to me, I saw the best
minds of my generation destroyed by television and mindless conformity
I think I always was a poet because I never quite fit in, and I was good at reading
in fact after I left home at nineteen, I began to read as much poetry as I could
and not long after that I realized that I liked some poetry better then other poetry
It means that I began to navigate through certain poets and writers that held
something that I need to totally comprehend about the human condition
otherwise there would have been no point for me being born to begin with