the roaring parties have exhaust fumes that can kill you
this energy is like a desperate dance with death
I’ve already watched this movie
about the rich and the beautiful
where social status is a currency
and the self-obsessed believe they can travel to far-away places
high, in the Andes Mountains
where death will never find them.
the party, is anonymous with laughter
We have to choose what will kill us
successful people die with their drug of choice
it’s all downhill, from their fame
like skiing on broken skis
their hair falls out
their good looks fade
their bones break
the party is over—it’s the dismal drudgery of existence
until, wrinkled with age
but the misery doesn’t have to be your own
you don’t have to stand outside of your mansion, like a crypt above ground
you don’t have to die, until your dead
I would rather be measured by
my own head
It’s not really about who’s listening
People only Pretend to listen,
It’s the sound of pleasure
that never satisfies
Thinking, someplace quiet
and not wanting, what others want
This is your own life—
don’t give it to the party
to the skeletons that dance until midnight
You are flesh
and bone
and spirit
You can save your own soul
if you dance
your own dance
when you make your own music
when you make-up your own mind
and you don’t wear it
on the outside, to look better
in a sea of clowns
who are sad when they smile.
Be a genuine person—it’s the only hope for humanity
it matters more, when you get close to death
and we are closer, than we know.
Intellectual Shaman 
Background music – a slow rhythmic bongo tap-tap heard, unheard. Smoke in the air. Cold coffee in neglected cups. A light struggles illuminating a microphone crowning a slender chromed spike. A stool. Soon the poet will climb into the stool’s saddle and recite, stopping appropriately atop the verbal hills for words to be absorbed, inflecting meaning not drawn fom inked words on yellowed paper.
You make me work sometimes. It’s worth the effort. Thank you.
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Very descriptive spwilcen–reminiscent of a poetry reading! I thoroughly enjoyed reading! 🙂
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I love this so much! All of it, every last word.
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I’m so glad Jennifer!!! 🙂
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Really loved this post, thanks for sharing! ❤️
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You are so welcome Tara’s Fit World! And thank you for your kind and encouraging words! 🙂
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Beautiful poem
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Thanks Anand Bose!!! Thanks for reading and I really appreciate your words of encouragement!
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Yep, yep, yes. some truth within the economy of words.
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Yes! 🙂
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