Freeks, Creaps, and Wierdos

[MystyrMystyry]

Freeks, Creaps, and Wierdos
They're everywhere!

Lurking in the shadows!
Hiding behind the bushes!
Coming out the woodwork!

Freeks, Creaps, and Wierdos

Is there one in your outhouse?
The cupboard beneath the stairs?
Picnicking behind the cellar door?

Freeks, Creaps, and Wierdos

Perhaps your next door neighbor?
Perhaps the daily postman?
Perhaps the local butcher?

Freeks, Creaps, and Wierdos

Who can you trust - not them!
Where can you go - not their place!
Who can you talk to - no-one!

Freeks, Creaps, and Wierdos

With their tattered clothes
With their unruly hair
With their sharp warty noses
And long pointy chins and necks
Like stalks of celery and missing
Tooth grins

With their greasy hands like hammers
With their six inch nails
With their smell of cigarette smoke
And their jetblack eyes and cauliflower
Ears - don't be fooled by their
Bow-ties

Freeks, Creaps, and Wierdos
They're everywhere!

[Delta40]

this sounds like a poem by the children's poet/author Colin McNaughton

[MystyrMystyry]

Haven't heard of him until now Delta - but he must be pretty good

No I was thinking of the bloke who was walking past my house five times in an hour with a stoop and tattered clothes - He may have been one of the best people in the world but I was just being a judgemental human wondering what the attraction to my street was (or worse- my house!) (Or worser - me!)

So there you go...

[Delta40]

...hope you're not locked in his cellar by now!

[everyadventure]

Yeah, you've gotta watch out for those Republicans...
;)

[the facade]

I like the tone of this one.
"Picnicking behind the cellar door?" - and this really cracked me up.

[MystyrMystyry]

No, not in the cellar Delta


You got that right every


Thanks the facade

[NoRule]

The poem has an overcast of paranoia to it, questioning what one does not understand but in good reason. It sheds light into the way judgment-at-a-glance manifests itself. I am interested in the purpose of spelling "Freeks" and "Creaps" the way you did; how come?
NoRule

[MystyrMystyry]

Freeks and Creaps (and indeed Wierdos) are all spelt differently to emphasise the difference between mine from the run-of-the-mill Freaks, Creeps, and Weirdos which you may encounter on any street corner

The ones I'm referring to are those that go largely unnoticed amongst us until the day they commit some unspeakably evil act(s) - I could give you examples, but I'm not a newspaper

[NoRule]

MystyrMystyry
I see, good suff. I guess I didn't notice at first that "wierdos" is spelled differently than the actual spelling of weirdos. i before e I usually think! Well anyways, good poem.
NoRule