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for a good time, call this number
by Jared Fladelandspread your fantastico to the left,
we're passing out good times and automobiles.
jiggle that posterier like you've got fifty pounds to burn,
we're going to be making music that sings,
"I am victorious."
if you think like an olympic athlete,
you'll win the town key for saving a cat from a tree.
if you think like a depressed, bitter, garbage man from Berkley,
you'll prob'ly knock off a liquor store because you can and you're bored.
we groove like serpents when a song plays
because we're looking beyond ourselves.
i never thought a high school dance could be so artistic.
there is a piece of platinum gold
in every speck of sawdust.
You just gotta weld your face to the competition and say:
"I believe in you." 08/11/2006 Author's Note: This was actually inspired by a comment Rula Shin made on one of my poems that made me think: if you want to be in a good mood, you have to think in terms of good moods. and from there, you'll inspire other good moods. It's a concept that you have two options. you either let the external affect the internal.. or you let the internal affect the external... and this poem, i wasn't in a hilariously wonderrful mood when I wrote it. but when I was done and reading it, I was in a great mood. Hopefully it spreads.
Posted on 08/11/2006
Copyright © 2024 Jared Fladeland
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Rula Shin on 08/11/06 at 06:38 PM "there is a piece of platinum gold
in every speck of sawdust. You just gotta weld your face to the competition and say: "I believe in you."" - Indeed, can I ever BE if I don't believe I can BE? Can I ever DO if I don't believe I can DO? What a pleasant surprise this is, and yes, quite uplifting with very lighthearted imagery and a quick-step rhythm that keeps you from floating too high. It's a little dose of grounded enthusiasm, which actually makes it a grand realization. What is there to lose when we are at a loss? Nothing, we have only to gain. Lovely! I'm touched that this was inspired by my comment :-)
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| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 08/11/06 at 10:05 PM Excellent! Off beat but very positive. Reminds me of one of my own earlier styles of writing and expression. |
| Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 08/12/06 at 01:05 AM I like the poem - I like the author's notes. Groove on.... |
| Posted by Ashok Sharda on 08/12/06 at 04:07 AM Well, the cause of every mood is an impression, an external stimuli, directly affecting us or via an associated thought, we helplessly react to. The external thus affects internal which affects our world. There is no permanancy here but then there isn't any control either, unless we decide to refuse to react and turn every reaction into ACTION.Yes, we ought to think positive and believe in it if we really want to turn the tables against all happenings we so idiotically call our doings. We ought to undo all these happening and BE.Well, Rula Shin has inspired me too, many a times, and helped me walk out of those gloomy moods I was in a mood to surrender. Meaningful. |
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