The Very Strange Person

[MystyrMystyry]

What's that?

What's what?

That gaping hole in your roof

What gaping hole?

That gaping hole - there!

Where?

That gaping hole right there where I'm pointing!

Oh - that? That's not a gaping hole...

It isn't? It looks like a gaping hole to me

No - that's not a gaping hole

What is it then?

It's an entrance

An entrance?

Sometimes an exit

To what?

To the ceiling

I don't understand

Well you know how my landlord lives on my roof?

I remember you mentioning something-

Well now it's Winter and he didn't want to get wet

Get wet?

Yeah - you know - like when it rains...

So he's made a gaping hole in your roof?

Ahem, built an entrance in my roof

Doesn't that bother you?

Not really - should it?

It'd bother the living shi t out of me if my landlord made a gaping hole in my roof

Me too - but it's not my roof - it's his - he lives there

Sheesh!

And evidently it isn't my ceiling either - I'm not renting the ceiling

So what does he do up there?

Walks around, climbs over

All day?

Only when it rains - if it rains all day then yes, all day

Does he seal it up when it stops raining?

Why would he want to do that? Just give him more work to do

But doesn't the rain get in?

Yeah - but it isn't my problem

Why not?

Because it isn't my ceiling

It isn't your ceiling?

Nope

What are you paying rent for, exactly?

I wish I knew...

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[everyadventure]

WA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! This whole time I thought these were like, Shel Silverstein poems, meant to be silly and funny. BUT YOU WERE SERIOUS!!!!!! Oh my GOSH you were SERIOUS! I am dying over here. You just made my day. Possibly my week. HA!!

[MystyrMystyry]

Thanks every - it's certainly starting to make for the greyest Winter I can remember

[Hawkman]

MM this is a wonderful bit of business :D It would undoubtedly work well as a dialogue exchange in a sketch or short story, and the pictures certainly reinforce this impression. Not entirely convinced it works as a poem though... :)

Live long and prosper - H

[MystyrMystyry]

Thanks Hawk - I don't think that poetry should be written by banging your head against a wall - trust me, it's very difficult to write a poem when there's a Very Strange Person stomping around a few feet directly above you

I guess what I was trying to say with this poem was F.F.S.F.O.M.F.!


(Didn't work :( )

[hillwalker]

Thanks Hawk - I don't think that poetry should be written by banging your head against a wall

I doubt that anyone ever thought it was supposed to be that way. Are we to surmise, in this case, that this is how you ended up with the hole in your roof?

Perhaps you need to wear a hard hat next time you sit down to write.

Health and Safety you know...

H

[MystyrMystyry]

Thanks for the suggestion Hill, but I was of course referring to the quality (or lack thereof) of the poetry in any poem written when under duress

I'm reminded of one you may have heard of called Kublah Khan - well, it is unfortunate for the world that one S.T. Colleridge stopped what he was doing to answer the door instead of putting his mp3 earplugs in and carrying on, ignoring the intrusive interloper

(What ever happened to him? Did he purchase a policy that covered everything except lightning, and then-...? Perhaps we'll never know...)