Joseph Monson
Whitey's Bold Beat Rap
In 2008
Life nearly spent
So I got in
Never looked back.
In a hospital they were blanks.
Lose some
Gain some
Take the flack.
Will always be lonesome
Anyhow anywhere nowhere overture
2009 on symphony’s done.
Still in hospital
Don’t belong.
Wishing things truths
And some untruths
Wishing with a schiz-dream boost.
Always wishing elsewhere on.
Can’t take it here without a song.
Brainwash blues
How was it caused?
Can’t tell all –
Too absurd.
Hear no evil,
See no evil –
Glad tidings from
The poet anon.
Wish get me out but don’t wanna go,
Beatles just say
Twist and shout.
Push me, pull me
Is feeling proud.
Blacker than consciousness
Can’t trace roots.
Smashed on head
Bottles or knives
Stop this man
Singing aloud.
Now no booze
You are a one
And fewer smokes
What did you do, son?
Made it all up
Can’t forsake
Thought must be
A heaven mistake.
Send myself up
The sketch is sad.
Still too soon
But still the moon
On a starlit night.
Dream on poet
And just don’t fight.
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