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Listen 2

by George Hoerner

i don’t blame you for
no longer listening

when did you first
realize i was crazy
repetition over
a lifetime can be
the first clue

maybe that night
which one i don’t recall
but maybe that night
with my foot on the pedal
ah you do remember

reading the same words
just in a different order
can be used as
torture you know

but then so can
the desolation of silence

so i’ve always tried
to make my own
music
but i’ve never
studied the subject

the nice thing about
not studying is
you can make up
your own rules
you just can’t
get anyone
to listen
and
you don’t
pass most of
the important tests

but then who grades life
oh yes, the police

07/26/2012

Posted on 07/26/2012
Copyright © 2024 George Hoerner

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Jim Benz on 07/26/12 at 05:11 PM

I can relate. Thank you for the knowing chuckle George. Because even in the "desolation of silence" (or while being cited for a traffic violation) we can still chuckle at the absurdity of it all.

Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 07/27/12 at 11:48 PM

You definitely had my attention here. Outstanding.

Posted by Gregory O'Neill on 07/28/12 at 11:40 PM

Love this, George! Drier than the most parched martini... terrific final line...like icing! Thanks.

Posted by Glenn Currier on 08/02/12 at 02:43 PM

This piece, especially that second to last stanza tickles that little place in me where I identify with artists and deviants - maybe not in equal measure. Thanks for lightening and lighting me up, George.

Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 08/06/12 at 12:43 PM

Andy Warhol said that one day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes. I think one day we will be listened to for at least as long, that is if by then we still have anything left to say or worth the listening to. And this, George is as lovely a song as there is to give heed to.

Posted by Laura Doom on 08/13/12 at 04:00 PM

...and I thought you were speed-reading sheet music :> Either way, an entertaining testament to the maxim: more piano, less forte (?)

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