Alley-Oop

Can’t sleep, caffeinated in a caffeine nation,

but reality dictates that I live in a place named

after a German chancellor and where one number

is four times the temperature that made some guy

named Ray famous and where another number is

the sum of the ultimate answer squared and the

ultimate answer once again, but it’s on the side

of the alternate side of the wide waterway.

 

What the hell am I saying right now?

 

Alley-Oop may live in the funny papers,

but I live in the booth at Perkins trying

to be the best imitation of the one who

should have zagged and the guy who

could deal death better than I ever

could and a bunch of other people

who have a more talented pen

than mine, and this is coming

from a guy who wonders if

that one guy ascended

upward in the opening

chapter of the history

that Luke wrote

 

What the hell am I saying right now?

 

I can’t sleep, and this is the best effort

I could put forth randomly at 12:04am

Central Standard Time.

Author's Note

Reviews

[Crowley]

Supercharged inner thoughts, thats what comes from coffee and lack of sleep. I like this style of writing where the thoughts seem disjointed and all over the place but end up making several concrete points and then bringing me in my own head to that same booth at perkins and remember those feelings....I should have wrote as well. Great job.

[...]

. and what an effort it is ! ...
. that first stanza is especially special ... an ode to numbers ...

[Ed Hart]

if alley-oop taught me anything, it was that the ugly guy could get the chick...major stuff that

[joshua deathdealer]

Being a dealer of death as well..I can relate to these confused caffeinated feelings. I'm making a cup of joe right now and it's 2:00 am eastern time. I don't know why but I am. Nice work...xx