Screaming Ladies & Walter Mittys

Blurred, every vision

Stupendously staggering, as if to fall

Nightmares encircling, alter egos crumbling to dust

Horn-rimmed glasses, broken cigarettes

Handmedown jackets and shoes

Newspapers calling their headlines

Mario Puzo is laying on the sofa

Sherlock Holmes; the state of the art series

Couch potatoes watch them on tellies

And brimming coffees sipped over thrillers

Fictions on love archaic

Times are grave these days

We live like Walter Mittys

Pot bellied tycoons wannabe

Dreams float like smoke

Snooze over telephones, no more 911s

They are pathetic

We live like Walter Mittys

Screaming children and ladies

Shush! Saviors asleep!

Marauding criminals!

Shush! We need sleep!

Bank-looting bandits!

We are sleep, shush!

Rapists with cape!

We are asleep! Shush!

We live like Walter Mittys

Make-believes are real, fiction is reality...

Reviews

[msharma]

A slight different topic dealt with great precision.

[Kathryn]

A little confusing, but I really enjoyed this. It really reflects how we have changed, as a species. Fabulous work, well done :)

[T.W. Early]

different. never read something like this before. Thanks for showing me something new!

[Victoria PoetryBunny]

Nice, different read, filled with great lines... i however loved this line a lot:
"Nightmares encircling, alter egos crumbling to dust"

[Ripple of Aqua]

Love the desperate and frozen picture that you gave. Was so creative!

[DoubtReality]

this was fantastic. i was really pulled through the poem. the line "nightmares encircling, alter egos crumbling to dust" really spoke to me. great job. you're an extremely talented writer

[Coyote Poetry]

A very interesting tale in this poem. I had to read a few times. Sometime life can lead us to crazy places.
"Couch potatoes watch them on tellies
And brimming coffees sipped over thrillers
Fictions on love archaic
Times are grave these days"
I like this poem. You open the door to many good questions. A excellent poem. Thank you.
Coyote

[Little Abbey]

Wonderful write!