Johnny Boy and Pearl

[Jerrybaldy]

Watch out Johnny Boy and Pearl,
for they are coming
and they want to know
what the hell you have been doing.
Tongue licking
will not suffice.
Johnny loving Pearl
will not do,
Johnny Boy.
You need to be on track,
you need to make sense.
Quit eye contact
before they see who you are.
They are coming,
with truth and religion
and today's campaign,
with reasons why not
and morals made of stone.
You conform,
but still the bastards come.
Screw and make sense
in the sunsets that you own,
where Johnny loves Pearl
written with a stick in the sand.
They will still wash up
in the grimey foam of the tide.
They are coming, Johhny
and Pearl.
Fight for all you are worth,
for they will take you down
until you are writing
these very
same lines
and ending it
just about
here.

[Delta40]

why, why do I think of sex when I read your poetry? You're like SarahDrago at a grass roots level!

[Buh4Bee]

Delta that comment was very funny.

[Jerrybaldy]

Well my theory, dear Delta, is that you bring the sex to the table of my wholesomely prepared meal. :P
Jeresa, stop encouraging her :D

[AuntShecky]

The "voice" ("Google": "poetic voice") is getting stronger and stronger with each subsequent posting of yours.

The repetition is effective and gives your piece structure and shape, both difficult to achieve in free verse.

The topic is as old as hell, but believe it or not, yours fooly does not find fault with how it's expressed in this particular piece. Throughout human history there has been a kind of
two-faced tolerance of human sexuality. (This isn't "schizophrenia," which apparently means something different from a split personality.) On the one hand (no pun intended) it's necessary to propulgate the species and societies --including parents and governments-- have a stake in men and women continuing their coupling. On the other hand the same parents, society, and authority figures see love as almost a subversive
element and thus go out of their way to keep young people from getting together and doing what they tend to do when they get together.

With your Johnny and Pearl, you've stumbled on the very theme that runs behind Romeo and Juliet and every romantic love song before and since, including the seemingly innocuous "People Will Say We're In Love" by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Good work here, Jer.

PS -- I loved Delta's quip. She is one of the LitNet
stars!