Reality Speaks

[Delta40]

Dislocated hipman
with that comic walk
The deaf signing at a busy train station
A unicyclist stumbles on his feet
Don't make fun of the disabled
jerk
Miming outside a deserted theatre
Penny for the drunken homeless
Red Rooster for lunch
Renal failure for dinner
twitchety twitch
A five year old passes away
I can feel his skin peel
at the crematorium
Little Wanker! calls tourettes
Convulsive laughter
then I turn blue
twitchety twitch twitch
Kiss the limp cat
Gnashed, minced tongue
broken teeth
No unanswered calls

[MystyrMystyry]

You've tapped into the nightmares that keep us motivated Delta. Even short term disabilities can make a person thankful for simple things; but life-long ones - we just don't want to think about them...

[Jerrybaldy]

dark.. and thats me saying it :) stalewart doesnt sound like a nice word but it is as you are that here :D

I just watched the opening to the paraolympics.. made your poem even stronger.

[Delta40]

Thanks!

[PrinceMyshkin]

It's like Hieronymous Bosch as reinterpreted by Dali! And, very tangentially, it reminds me of one of the torture techniques said to have been practised under he former president of Iraq: where an interrogator would drive a nail into the brain of a suspect. Extraordinary poem, Delta!

[Delta40]

It's like Hieronymous Bosch as reinterpreted by Dali! And, very tangentially, it reminds me of one of the torture techniques said to have been practised under he former president of Iraq: where an interrogator would drive a nail into the brain of a suspect. Extraordinary poem, Delta!

That's an interesting review. I left out some lines intentionally but am thinking I should throw them in having read your comment Prince.