Telling people what to do without their consent
Drives ‘em all around the bend
2 grand won’t pay for the way a person feels
4 grand won’t pay for ‘em to ‘eal (heal)
Tight-lipped with no Voice and no Freedom
You may as well have left them bleeding
8 miles down there’s a horse and carriage riding
in the Underworld, that’s why it smells like shit on the way to freedom
There is a river and a man with bow and quiver
taking aim, yet no arrow
nodding for justice and not begging pardon
16 miles along the road to higher learning
there’s a dip , and a ruby mist
waiting to be born on the wings
of a red-breasted meadowlark: soldier bird*
There is unharvested land where nothing is canned
and serpents await the plowing whereupon
they go out into the fields
older than the leaves of the gingko biloba*
I sit and dream of all the four-leaf clover
it may not pay for all my pain
but sun may smile, and then again
tight-lipped freedom is no freedom at all
on the hind legs of Tatu’s* ball
© 2000 Rudolf Kurt Penner (name of blackbird, and research added April 16, 2018)
lyrics for potential song
*(Leistes militaris) Trinidadian: “soldier bird”: a black bird with a red breast. Also seen in Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil and Nicaragua (Formerly called red-breasted blackbird, but it is not a member of the red-winged blackbird family)
*gingko biloba: a type of leaf from which is made a supplement that helps clear thinking and blood circulation
*Tatu virando bola: a type of armadillo that can roll itself into an armoured ball when in danger. Native to Brazil https://youtu.be/-x71UlnYVEU name of video:
“Tatu virando bola, Armadillo rolls into a ball – In the wild Brazil”
April 25, 2018
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Without Their Consent
Telling people what to do without their consent
Drives ‘em all around the bend
2 grand won’t pay for the way a person feels
4 grand won’t pay for ‘em to ‘eal (heal)
Tight-lipped with no Voice and no Freedom
You may as well have left them bleeding
8 miles down there’s a horse and carriage riding
in the Underworld, that’s why it smells like shit on the way to freedom
There is a river and a man with bow and quiver
taking aim, yet no arrow
nodding for justice and not begging pardon
16 miles along the road to higher learning
there’s a dip , and a ruby mist
waiting to be born on the wings
of a red-breasted meadowlark: soldier bird*
There is unharvested land where nothing is canned
and serpents await the plowing whereupon
they go out into the fields
older than the leaves of the gingko biloba*
I sit and dream of all the four-leaf clover
it may not pay for all my pain
but sun may smile, and then again
tight-lipped freedom is no freedom at all
on the hind legs of Tatu’s* ball
© 2000 Rudolf Kurt Penner (name of blackbird, and research added April 16, 2018)
lyrics for potential song
*(Leistes militaris) Trinidadian: “soldier bird”: a black bird with a red breast. Also seen in Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil and Nicaragua (Formerly called red-breasted blackbird, but it is not a member of the red-winged blackbird family)
*gingko biloba: a type of leaf from which is made a supplement that helps clear thinking and blood circulation
*Tatu virando bola: a type of armadillo that can roll itself into an armoured ball when in danger. Native to Brazil https://youtu.be/-x71UlnYVEU name of video:
“Tatu virando bola, Armadillo rolls into a ball – In the wild Brazil”
April 25, 2018 Posted by poemtree6 | All Poems, social commentary | anxiety, consent, feel, freedom of speech, tight-lipped | Leave a comment