Stupid Fish Drinking Me

by Adam Gaucher - Sagittarius

My biography would start off with
a player catching watermelons
and other various fruit with tooth-
picks out in left field.
Otherwise, I wasn't born until
everyone around me understood
the concept of surrealism.  I still
stand surrounded by mirrors in space.
Oops!  That's my fault I guess!

(Singing) "Can you see me?"
Where's the harmony?  "No one can
see me!"  Now, with rolled eyes
and swaying heads!  (This is where
they usually leave).  So long.  I
myself will sing.

Here's what I've come up with:
Fat kid riding bike losing weight.
He lived through disco.

One must wonder how many
blue shirts have gone through
this door.  (He points again).  Exhale.
Excuse me, there's a fly in this
soup.  But never mind, it's being eaten
by the colony of frog life in
my coffee.  Drink.

Empty Green Bottle Blues:
My name is loving you,
Oh, and the blues is my game.
Yes my name is loving you,
Oh yeah, and the blues is my game.
But if you're not gonna be lovin' me child,
Things just ain't gonna be the same.

You speak of the eclectic and
one's horrible prose, but creativity is not
counting by multiples of nine.
Though, to be technical, you wouldn't
want to count on anything at all.
At least not until the day that it's
out of style.  Smile, awhile, for
five miles, get it?  The
ship sank in folk tales,
before we (he he) we're born.

Tie Drivin' Blues:
Got this guitar fo' Christmas,
An' I got a little toy train.
Got a guitar fo' Christmas,
An' I got this little toy train.
Well I'm tired a livin' here,
So I'm hoppin' in to get away,
With me and my guitar,
Sittin' in this little toy train.

Image isn't much, but demeanor is
something special.  Getting the glance is
only half the fiasco, while a sixteen-fourths
is left over even after Thanksgiving.
Like a stack of pancakes padlocked
with chains, it seems a little strange, but all
tastes the same.  Blink.

This stanza creates the
cameo appearance of
Harpo Marx.

The next Escher is defeated
by a splashing glass of liquids
with all of the elements soaking into the
table.  The piece is sold at two arms,
but no legs.  Avant-garde I say, "Indeed."

This stanza creates the cameo
appearance of Gene Wilder playing
Harpo Marx.

A summer drowned in love
one day.  (Unrequited).  But all
those toes made such wonderful
prunes for eating.  I still wasn't
hungry, but I decided
to build a kiosk for this
lemonade.  Robert Johnson helped
by getting his lemon squeezed, but
we had to go to jail for not
having a peddler's licence.

Nonexistent God Damned Blues:
Ain't no God gonna save me now,
I'm surely dead 'fore the mornin' shows.
Ain't no God gonna save me now,
I'll be dead in the mornin' fo' sho'.
'Cause I just left fo' Louisiana,
And my baby just don't wanna go.

A cause for laughter:  She drops
her spoon.  She then starves and
dies at the age of
twenty three.  Some still laughing.

Important note number fifty six:
My watch has yet to stop.

Have you ever witnessed a U-turn
out the window where you're sitting?
The people in the car, so close to getting
there, but alas, only turning back away.
More important things I guess.

Sorry.  It was Shakespeare who
interrupted me with his cordless phone.
I could only interrupt with my phoneless
cord.  And so the people think I'm
crazy here, in the end; the(ir) death
of my beginning.

Sometimes when I cross the street
Richard taps my shoulder with a
message from George.  Then we have
to go back to the house and
burry Paul.  Paul's been dead
far too long to still be alive.
We invite Eric Idle who's dressed
as, but not playing,
Harpo Marx.
Birth sign: Sagittarius
Date created: 2002-07-28 11:04:51
Last updated: 2021-04-14 17:18:16
Poem ID: 69732

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