Couch Potato Wise

[Delta40]

I heard somewhere
my brother
has grown excessively
Now he feels
a budda like balance
He dictates from his
two and half seater throne
what people need to do
in their life so they might feel
as full as him
His fat spills and sloshes
over elastic pants
with each laboured breath
His *** print is
embedded deep in the couch
while his flabby arms
stretch forward and back
back and forward
multiple times in a day
like some routine exercise
to grab another ladle
of rich spicy food
He is driven to stuff his mouth full
till the sauce dribbles
out the sides and onto
his grubby soiled t-shirt
His void wobbles like laughter
as his fat chin glistens
I hear a good pint
washes all that gluttony down
He lifts one tree trunk thigh
and unleashes his opinion
of his wife's cooking
So preaches the couch potato

[Hawkman]

A lovingly painted portrait of a sibling, there Delta. A fascinating read, one wants to look away but one dare not, in case one misses some new gleefully revolting image described with such elegent vervre. Magnificent. H

[Delta40]

thanks hawk. sisters do love their big brothers!

[dafydd manton]

Oh, the imagery!! The love!! The....well, I'm not sure! Lifting a tree-trunk thigh? Hmmm!!

[Delta40]

well you see, I've been reading poems about trees, voids and fat. It kind of just unrolled itself before me...

[Hawkman]

Engages Melchet mode and laughs, "Baaaaaaaah! Evenin' Blackadder!"

[dafydd manton]

One trusts that your brother is not on the Forum. I hope not, for your sake, Delta!

[Delta40]

if he was, it would collapse under his excessive couch wisdom....

[dafydd manton]

I think he might be my hero...... role model.....!!!

[Delta40]

roast beef roll, you mean?

[dafydd manton]

*No Comment*

[Jerrybaldy]

I fear if I say too much you will quote John lennon at me again. So I will just say nicely captured Delta.

[Delta40]

that was some net I had to cast though!

[Jerrybaldy]

must have been hours in its weaving

[JackieGinger]

I am probably stating the obvious here, but this poem reminds me of Roger McGough's poem entitled "Fart".
Love the poem! Guess helps you work on the sibling-pressure... Never thought of this kind of therapy, though! Good one!

[Delta40]

thanks jackie. mum regurgitated the guy while i was at dinner and I remembered having him as a brother. haven't talked to him in a while. love him. don't get along though. figure it isn't time to reunite yet.

[dafydd manton]

Isn't it strange how things happen. I love my sister, yet she drives me mad - one afternoon every 6 months is more than enough. Thank heavens we have friends - the family that we choose for ourselves!

[Delta40]

thankfully, I never had a sister....

[dafydd manton]

Nice with chips, a few peas, onion gravy.........

[Delta40]

I have a step sister but that's like having a cruddy home brand as an alternative...

[dafydd manton]

I've never stepped on my sister - I must try it some time!

[Delta40]

lmao. burn up mega calories by stepping on your stepsister to the theme of 'ugly stepsister'

[dafydd manton]

Oh dear - sibling rivalry to the Nth degree!! Not a nice person, then?

[Delta40]

well, you see, she belongs to the same gene pool as the wicked stepmother...I don't swim there but she does on a regular basis.

[dafydd manton]

Ah, right, got you! Been there, the step-parent. Could have strangled one of the little dears. His mother always wanted him to grow up and be the Dad that she had missed. Pity he was gay. I nearly wet myself laughing when I found out. She has a pilot's licence for a broomstick!

[Delta40]

Mine yearned for legitimacy so she added her daughters name to my father's death certificate. Word to the stupid - don't mess with a commonwealth public servant who knows bureaucracy, govt acts and the penalties for providing misleading information

guess she still doesn't like me even if she desperately wants to be like me - the only daughter of my father!

there. I feel better now!

[dafydd manton]

Cathartic, sometimes, isn't it! Don't blame you at all!

[JackieGinger]

And you all think your in pain...! (me having to put up with mine every day of my life - and honestly I was well -intended she was the one ruining everything, being a ...can't find proper words for her behavior, nevertheless isn't this what sisters are for?)

[Delta40]

have a group hug JackieGinger.

[Jerrybaldy]

I have to complain . This bares a striking resemblence to my original work ' My brother Belta' . I will be mailing heshelemonade and bringing up the subject of a lesser mentioned croc.

[JackieGinger]

sweet! I just put a Cheshire-cat-smile upon my grand face!

[dafydd manton]

Oh, we're the world's best at group hugs on here!! We practice lots!

[Delta40]

I have to complain . This bares a striking resemblence to my original work ' My brother Belta' . I will be mailing heshelemonade and bringing up the subject of a lesser mentioned croc.

you dirty harry croc! this work was here before yours. i bet if our poems were either side of him, dirty harry would choose mine as the better one!

:nono:

[dafydd manton]

Delta, I don't want to worry you, but when you're referring to Jerry, the correct word is Crock. As in Old Crock.

[Jerrybaldy]

*walks into a quiet corner and plays solitaire*
*its the only game in town*

[Delta40]

Delta, I don't want to worry you, but when you're referring to Jerry, the correct word is Crock. As in Old Crock.

well lets see how an old crock does fighting an old croc.... I know who I will put my money on :hurray: