Workin' For The Man

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. - Thoreau

i'm tired

tired

so damned tired

of phony people draped in pretense

wearing the faux fur of false airs

playing a game

wearing tags with someone else's name

turning insane to sane

when did it become unacceptable to be real

to be genuine

to care and feel

why has being transparent and true become such a big deal

it's not the praying but the willingness to kneel

a sneaker doesn't have a heel

there must be fire to forge steel

after all

the best ships sail with an even keel

you don't have to listen to a word i say

night is night and day is day

june always follows may

it's best to plug in and warm up before you play

clay is always mud but mud isn't always clay

it's easy to pull out plastic when it's time to pay

think what you like and say what you may

you're workin' for the man at mca

Author's Note

"I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Lisasview]

Oh gosh, how many of us, especially in poet land, have felt this way!!
Lisa

[Pete]

hi lisa. thanks, you made me laugh in poet land.

“Poets are damned … but see with the eyes of angels." - Allen Ginsberg

[Lisasview]

I have been away for a few weeks due to a clavicle break and only being able to type with one finger on my left hand...so I am away from "poet land" which I hate.

[Lisasview]

I mean hate being away..

[Pete]

i hope you're healing quickly and well ... :)

[Lisasview]

Thank you,

[Lydia Shutter]

Insincere and two faced people are everywhere. We need to recognize them and know what they say is not real. "wearing the faux fur of false airs" what a brilliant line this is, Pete! Love Lynryd Skynyrd! Glad I visited this one. Lydi***

[Pete]

thanks for sharing lydi - never would have had you pegged for a skynyrd girl! don't get me started on fake people. i can usually tell pretty quickly with a sixth sense and keep my distance. it's the one's who fool you that are really dangerous. beautiful day here north of boston. will go for my daily constitutional by the river later this afternoon (probably with the song in my head 'cuz i don't like to carry my phone on the walk) life is good if we dare to see it that way ... :)

[Lydia Shutter]

Sure is, Pete....always something worth smiling about. Walking by the Charles River? Enjoy the cool spring air, my friend. Lydi**

[Pete]

I'm now about 25 miles northwest of old beantown. i'm on the assabet river named from an Algonquian word. my inlaws used to live close to boston. i would take my wife and sons to walk along the charles after a big dinner. god bless my mother in law - a true saint in every sense of the word. i can still taste her pasta and meatballs and everything in between. the walks were after dinner and before coffee and dessert and to take the kids outside for a while before the ride back home.

[Pete]

ah duh, just realized you're a florida girl. of course you're a skynyrd girl. silly me. sorry ... :)

[Lydia Shutter]

Oh yea, Southern Rock is always Skynyrd! what a nice memory you have of your MIL. Not many people like their in laws!

[Pete]

i loved her like my own mother. i still cry that she's no longer with us. liked my father-in-law too. god rest their souls ... :)

[Lydia Shutter]

:) They were fortunate to have a son in law who loved them.

[willweb]

A cool poem, a little Skynyrd...what could be better than that?

[Pete]

you know it ww. man that ed king can wail a guitar ... :)

[Pete]

... i'm not sure that there is such a thing as just "a little skynyrd" ... :)

[willweb]

Yep, I think you are right!!!

[Pete]

...and billy powell sure played a mean piano. he lit up the keys ...:)

[willweb]

I am a pianist and yep...gotta love those keyboard guys.