Fishbowl, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
If it be my name
Fall off many a tongue
To become a life
No longer my own
I would wish this
To be after my death
Emily is spot on
To be nobody
My preference
Of frogs in bogs
Goldfish too
Scrutinized
All the day through
Shadows everywhere
Following you
It will not do
Emily Dickinson
I’m with you
Banish me too
From the fishbowl’s stew.
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An ode poem to Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody, Who Are You?”
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Good Tidings, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
You didn’t
Put enough
Tinsel
On the branches
You didn’t
Set up
The creche set
Correctly
You didn’t
Check
All the bulbs
In the string
Of lights
You never do
Anything
Right
The reindeer
Goes there
Not there
THERE
Where
Do I hang
The socks
I hung them wrong
My favorite day
Of the year
The 26th of December
Couldn’t get here faster.
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I do not have fond memories of my childhood for the holidays. My late mom was a perfectionist and an authoritarian growing up. I will say to her credit in her old age that melted away. But it was not fun growing up.
I still do not like the holidays, but my reasons are different now. I don’t like how “IN YOUR FACE” they are with ads on your TV, your laptop, and even when you go out shopping. I do not need every minute of my life invaded by this.
I get that people like it, and in a free society they are intitled to celebrate. But I do hate it when people look at you like you are evil if you say you do not celebrate. -
Darting, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on Twitter and @briranrrs37 on Twitter)
Tv, laptop, cell
Kittens make me
Dwell
Darting, darting
Darting, thoughts
Everywhere
Football game
Poetry reading
Cats scattering
Darting, darting
Darting, thoughts
Everywhere
Passively watching
I don’t care who is wining
My team isn’t playing
Kittens running, hiding
Hidden behind something
I cannot find them
Laptop has no mic
Twitter Spaces I cannot find
Nobody seems to be on line
Darting, darting
Darting, thoughts
EverywhereTv, laptop, cell
Kittens make me dwell
Words absent in my well. -
If you are a regular reader you have been seeing less posts recently. I have been mainly distracted by my two kittens. But I have also been getting into “Twitter Spaces”. I really want to get back to writing daily, but it seems the inspiration simply isn’t full time now, not even short poems.
I am going to try to budget some hours, maybe 1 or 2 a day at least, where I stick to simply reading online poetry from my followers and those I follow, and possibly getting inspired by them. Or hopefully getting to write some longer ones.
I just had a sudden bought of sadness, not quite depression, but just about an hour ago it hit me I wasn’t writing enough. My kittens are making me smile sure, but they are not stopping me from my depression and anxiety like I thought they would. They are helping for sure, but they are not an absolute cure.
I guess what I am saying is I cannot rely on simply one thing, to keep me more upbeat. I need more writing right now. And Elon is really screwing up people’s accounts and I am seeing less posts from the people I want to, and more posts from people I am not even following that Elon seems to like. -
Britney Griner has been released from Russian prison and is now on her way home! THANK YOU PRESIDENT BIDEN!
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I had the misfortune today to stumble into a Twitter Space room, and I’ve heard this ham fisted, clumsy, backhanded “complement” before, the host said something to the effect of, “I like him, he is a white black man, well mannered”. WHAT THE FUCK?
Now, this wasn’t a comedy Space, it wasn’t in the context of say South Park or Family guy humor. It was basically a serious but casual conversation about sports stars and their favorite players. One person mentioned Jerry Rice.
I am sorry, but that is NOT how you tell a black person you like them. It is basically saying “If you act white, I’ll like you”. What the fuck does that mean? I have heard plenty of white people with the lexicons of pre schoolers, so I am not understanding what this person means about “A white black man”. -
I Don’t Care, Do You? By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Heinz can’t keep up
With his painting needs
Golf resort with bed bugs and fleas
Ray Charles is pleased
It’s bringing him to his knees
And tax fraud Cheeto sneeze
I could bet if I could see
He’s crying and drowning
His sorrows in KFC grease
Woe is he
Am I sorry?
I don’t care, do you?
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I am fudging the syntax in the following so it doesn’t create a link to this account that is not me.
IF YOU SEE “RationalPoet.@.rationalpoet1” <—— THAT IS NOT ME!
I have only two Twitter accounts….. RationalPoet@Brianrrs37 and Brian@rationalpoet37. -
Occupied, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Operation Kittylord
Has commenced
They have landed
On the beaches of my bed
Scaled the side of it
With their claws
No hesitation at all
Kelly has parked herself
On top of me, asleep
Anneplath is at flank
To my left in a pillbox
Of sorts, holding down the fort
Both in slumber
After a busy morning
Of paw to paw combat
Morning MREs
Stuffing their bellies
They joined the marines
And without a fatality
They are in reality
My wonderful army.
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