Saturday, June 6, 2009

Muse Blues

Early in the morning, not even close to dawn,
I awake, rub my eyes and yawn.
“Get up, get up, inspiration is nigh”
I hear my muse in my ear and sigh.

“Ok, Ok, I’ll go see what clicks,
Maybe I’ll write about some good looking chicks.”
But the eyes are old and blurry
So to awake I’m not in a hurry.

I plop at my desk and turn on the machine,
All I get is a bright blue screen.
I stare in disbelief, not tonight or this morning it seems,
The demon inside has it’s own schemes.

My wife walks in, “Oh, there you are, you retard,
I thought maybe you were out in the yard.
Remember the neighbors called the last time.
The judge said mowing naked is a crime.”

All this because of my muse
Who loves to torture me and inflict abuse.
Rides me hard to write a few words
And “Don’t forget the rule of thirds”.

So back to bed I go and shut my eyes,
Say goodnight and my goodbyes.
In the morning I’ll think this was all a dream,
As I eat my Wheaties and chocolate ice cream.

2 comments:

Cheryl Peters said...

I like this even more now than before. You've got the last words in each line rhyming with the next; the content is easy to sympathize with, funny and just plain entertaining.

The verse where your wife walks in and calls you a retard tickled me. Your crime leaves me wondering...

Your last line is the frosting on the cake, so to speak.

There's got to be somewhere that you can submit this. (You'd have to remove the word "retard" though and that would require a bit of reworking).

Walk said...

Can't change the obvious....