Skip to main content Help Control Panel

Shakespeare's Monkeys

Infinite Monkeys. Infinite Typewriters.

More in Rhiannon's Poetry

TO SHUT ME UP

WARNING: Based on a minor personal slice-of-life event of a few days ago. Contains an expletive, simply because that is what was said. Just the facts, Mam...
You kissed my mouth to shut me up
To which I answered “Fuck you”
I kissed you back, suppressed a smile
I’d known its what you would do!

You left your chair and cupped my head
Then briskly raised me up
You kissed me deep and said you
Simply had to shut me up

I heard your words before you spoke
Amused with expectation
I knew you’d claim it was to end
An awkward conversation
Jack the Hobo - on Feb. 11 2007
Sorry, simply putting a "fuck you" in a poem does not raise it to world class. This is a good diary or journal entry, but not a poem that would enthrall the masses. I recommend you get out of your own head and start looking around at the world. You might find that you can write something all of us would be interested in.

JMTC.
Rhiannon Jones - on Feb. 11 2007
Appreciate your perspective, Jack. I find that, on some days, my own head is a rather fertile place from which to write...women seem to like my words. Maybe its a girl thang! This one was for fun Thanks for commenting. -R
Anstey - on Feb. 11 2007
I think the moment is universal enough, though not expressed differently enough to truly bump it up a notch. I enjoyed the poem in a fairly fleeting way. I am neither enamored of, nor opposed to the explitive. On the whole, the poem is better than a lot of mine, that's for sure.


  • stephan

Anstey - on Feb. 11 2007
Hey, loved the little warning in the intro! Perfect.


  • stephan

Kath - on Feb. 12 2007

yes, I think a head is quite a fertile place, and universal enough as we all have them.  I tend to like rhyming as a special effect and not so constant, but the poem, and the event has an unusual character to it, I think not ordinary, and this is light, funny and rather inventive as far as situations and their expression go. Plus I did like the little warning. Even that had character.


Sarin - on Feb. 21 2007
I would have said "you fuck!"

Seriously though at least it's not the same old run of the mill stuff & yea the warning was one of the best qualities in the piece.


Yes I'm some kind of freak, as they all sit & stare w/ their hallow eyes ~ I'm just a girl, No Doubt
Share
* Invite participants
* Share at Facebook
* Share at Twitter
* Share at LinkedIn
* Reference this page
Monitor
Recent files
Member Pages »
See also