Who's in Charge of Hiring?

'neath a stolen, nuclear sun

night interrogated for suspicion of shady darkness

it's raining kidney stones

into a hesitant, battery acid river

clogged with wet, worthless, whistling dollar bills

uncoordinated, juggling clowns crossing bank to bank and back again

going nowhere

walmart all out of toiled paper, what a pity

things turning from crappy to downright s****y

shards of broken, privacy glass in tears

faded, scarlet trees standing tall upon steroid crutches

distorted, elongated, rosary beads and poison ivy vines dangling and clinging everywhere

faith carried in zippered backpacks with holes like swiss cheese

loyalty like a box of crackerjacks

blind people everywhere texting heaven on cellphones

food banks handing out peanut butter and chlamydia

yellow, boa constrictor scarves the day's fashion

viagra cars driving themselves

vaseline snakes having fun

you need a finger to be number one

no one knows what year this

i'm starving and there's a stalled tesla blocking the mcdonald's drive thru

perhaps i'll grow a moustache like fu manchu

technology and artifical intelligence have come undone

quick, someone voice dial 911

they want a million bucks for a half-dozen, cracked eggs

while the government, without a leg to stand on, holds out its hand and begs

striped, hoped for tomorrow and rich, lonely today in wide lapels

charlatans casting spells while the old brick mill chimes its own pre-recorded bells

so much for my plan

so much for me being 'the man'

think i'll just tune out and jimi jam

Reviews

[Betty Hermelee]

So many great lines and anger at places and people who deserves it.. you’re quite political as well seeing how things are playing in your opinion..you add a lot of sarcasm to your oration, which deserves it
.. things are pretty s****y and getting worse … I would give up on the bullshit.. a great write Pete, one of your best😊
Warmly
B🌷

[Pete]

truth is stranger than fiction. thanks for the kind share b. hope you're enjoying the hot summer.

[Betty Hermelee]

Hi Pete, wish it would cool off!!
Always a pleasure!
Warmly, B

[Thomas W Case]

Wow. You nailed this. Brilliant work.

[Pete]

good to see you twc. thanks.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

It sounds rather depressing from the diagnosis but the treatment option sounds wonderful. I love listening to Jimi. Nothing wrong with society today that global extinction events haven't cleared up in the past. It's the same old, same old. Different names and faces. This too, shall pass.

[Pete]

each generation makes their footprint upon this world but time marches on and it eventually is erased. you and i both know that there's nothing new under the sun.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

It's true and as my dear departed daddy used to say, "Don't take life too serious, none of us are getting out of it alive."

[emmajoygreen]

This is quite a mix of tongue in cheek and absolute fact, Pete - and boy has has your damn-dam burst its opinions! For the most am on your side, won't be boring and list but say that perhaps the walking-working Brits know the fact, abhor the bull and suffer silently very noisily when essential - quite often. Great writing, Pete.. the truth and nothing but..

[Pete]

lol. can't help but call it as i see it. we all need an outlet, don't we? hope your summer is a tad more tame than this and a lot cooler than ours has been. dreadfully hot around these parts. take good care.

[Pallavi]

Things turning crappy to downright s****y, we have all been through it.
Million bucks for a half a dozen eggs.

The way you wrote it, is way more than just beautiful.
Very bright choice of words!

Really really loved it!

[Pete]

lol. thank you for sharing thoughts. as my muse thoreau wrote, "If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies."

[Pallavi]

Woah, it took me quite sometime to understand this!

[Pallavi]

And I am not really sure if I do.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

What a wonderful experience of metaphors in this.
I like the stalled tesla...you have such a clever way of writing political....you almost sneak up behind the reader and then BAM!

[Pete]

lol. sounds like you got all of the not so subtle subtleties. thanks and keep well j.

[JessyJacob]

I see you as as a person more worried about Russian people stopped war on Ukraine, on July 30 and jealous that it didn't wet your home, and say to God are you happy with day holiday to war in Ukraine... I don't understand man what you are eating is going to brain or arrogance...
How long you will live, what if you get heart attack, did you reserve emergency fund are you going to ask God give me money..
Funny it don't even understand a bit of your writing and unrelated to it..
It might be to live for fun for you but for few it's a struggle to live do you care for struggle... Just you need fun even make your family sweep...

It is exactly the same day july 30, two years earlier, when I left USA leavingy son there, and moved to India, I have seen much struggle and don't know how it is going to be evry next day, do I care to live .. and don't even care to take off life of others like Mother Nature as you see Tsunami in 30 countries, yesterday my heart and whole body exploded felt like bullets were shot on me, and people say re you happy with this... Do you ever care your own family or surroundings and caring for world.. what if you run out of boat or a oxygen cylinder are you able to fly to Mars or just feel like seeing heaven.

Jessy Jacob..

[Ms claws]

I think I enjoyed this more than anything! Even "Picture yourself on a train in the station with plaster seed porters with looking glass ties"..

You sure have a whole lot more detail and by gosh it makes sense!

[Pete]

lol. i see, said the blind man. thanks. for the straight-up share e.

[Ms claws]

Pete ...By the way, "Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced? I have"

[Pete]

i'm inexperienced at life and living.

[Ms claws]

That's lyrics in the song Are You Experienced. Have you heard it? Hendris, for all his faults, is a legendary music maker.

[Ms claws]

Pete https://youtu.be/WUOb5v--vTY?si=I_2SvicpDA1l28BX