Poetic License: No more heavy poems
I know that I am long past due
For a serious poem,
Flirting round with country
Won’t ever bring one home,
But the older I get
The younger I see —
No more heavy poems
Coming out of me.
So I’m cashing in my chips
And switching o’er to verse,
Call me Octo-Pappy
Or Poet in Reverse,
‘Cause the older I get
The younger I see —
No more heavy poems
Coming out of me.
“You have got to be serious!”
Some fellow poets exclaim:
“Poetry and Gravity
Are keys to Laureate fame.
‘Cause the older you get,
The sooner you will see,
Why you need those heavy poems
Pouring out of thee!”
I’ll sell my stash for Johnny Cash
And Willie Nelson sound,
A poem’s no fun when it weighs a ton
And its feet stay on the ground.
So the older I get,
The lighter I must be,
No more heavy poems
Coming out of me.
I’m writing no more stanzas
Recounting all my woes,
Going back and forth and over
To wherever under goes,
The only song you’ll ever hear
From this moment on:
Give thanks, everybody,
My heavy poems are gone.
The older I get,
The lighter I must be,
No more heavy poems
Coming out of me.