Topic: LIVING IN PEACE WITH A MOCKINGBIRD
this time of year an old advesary returns, just when it's nice enough to open the windows. I wrote this last year and dug it out of moth balls..silly little piece of irony
Living in Peace with a Mockingbird mcvicker 2008
[ a political novella]
Oh, the rhetoric, all day and all the night long.
The different pitch; not a different song.
The same old bird…. with their dirty looks.
Preaching to the choir, from the same old books.
After midnight I thought, “How do I, get peace?��
Do I try to understand this? To gain release?
Do I give to this monster, the things he demands?
Only to find him one mile closer, to where I stand.
Do I scream at him? Maybe throw a shoe?
Wake up the neighbors; see what they’d do?
Who would be the pest? And then.
They’d yell at me, to my chagrin.
“Off to jail; with him who disturbs the peace!��
I’d say, “Wait a minute, don’t you see?
I’m just trying to the best, for you and me.��
“Broker a deal…just to get some rest
doing what I think is good…for all; doing what’s best.��
Laughing at me, It keeps his cadence.
Master of this before; I’m about to lose patience.
“This scruffy loudmouth won’t get the best of me.��
I looked in my corner and it’s the gun I see.
It’s the gun I see……..
It’s the gun I see…….
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Quiet now, locate his roost….shhhhh
Give him a taste of this; that’ll give him a boost.
Take careful aim, easy; and squeeze.
The bullet took off, my ear to appease.
The flick of a wing,
I heard the ping.
The glass shattered in loud crescendo.
Oh God, what have I done?
I just wanted to run…..Oh yeah…Oh no….
I’ve just shot out Ms. Hadley’s front window.
Oh no, Ahhh…… the irony…..To kill the mocking bird?
and took it from beginning to end.
I would try another.
