Knock.knock who's there? for Friend Salvatore

narrative verse

 

 

Knock, knock who’s there

 

The poltergeist, mischievous sprite

 who taps and knocks to cause alarm

and can move things about by night.

 A nuisance but does little harm.

 

It is to be found most commonly

up to his scalliwaggery.

Where one approaching puberty

 creates him quite unconsciously.

 

He’s not a separate entity

but an extension of the mind.

Which can act independently

in some way as yet undefined.

 

Or so psychiatrists believe

and who can prove their words untrue

Their explanations don’t achieve

an end to what is troubling you.

 

A poltergeist a noisy ghost

does little harm to anyone

. His mostly unsuspecting host

often a girl sometimes a boy.

 

A child who quite unconsciously

 expresses feelings they can’t show

with openness and honesty.

When they mature the ghost will go.

 

There are some things you can’t explain

no matter how hard you may try.

 The experts need to think again

if they’re to solve this mystery.

 

But they maintain as experts do

that their opinions are correct.

Although sometimes this may be true.

 Some times it is not I suspect.

 

For Poltergeists obey no rules

 Although the experts think they do

Just self opinionated fools

who know less than they think they do.

 

14-Sep-08

 

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