Up Periscope

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. - Thoreau

Image by CSA Images

i feel an insatiable need to write

to ease a metaphorical drought and poetic plight

something

anything

everything

to spill my guts

to change "ifs", "ands" and "ors" to "buts"

ignoring "what's"

perhaps it will get me out of these deep ruts

opening a door that, up 'til now, only shuts

a rhyming clutz

eating the holes in donuts

life's putz

a legless man who struts

skating on unfrozen water and trying to do a triple lutz

undeniably nuts

spreading butter with a knife that cuts

in a submarine sandwich having only bread along with a one-eyed periscope

hold the cold cuts

Author's Note

"Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience." - Thoreau

Reviews

[mou]

And you wrote it when the heat was there! Metaphors, rhyme, and fresh imagination... I enjoyed this creative write!
'...to change "ifs", "ands" and "ors" to "buts"
ignoring "what's"...'
- It was awesome
- mou

[Pete]

lol. impossible to avoid unexpected spills.

[John Sullivan]

Excellent choice of accompanying song, was listening to it myself the other day.

[Pete]

a classic song indeed. jim was am amazing poet with some unforgettable lines. good share j.s.