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Ballade of Rhyme
As funds grow low I guess I could
go back to work to earn some more,
C.V's in rhyme? Misunderstood!
Those philistines have no rapport.
So, sell myself, a torrid whore?
(I'd not get much for what I've got)
would punters beat paths to my door?
I'll write my rhymes I like that not!
Even when I've been very good
I have to write to creditors,
I plead " my youth, my livelihood "
in rhyme, but, they know the score
and soon bailiffs are at my door,
they take my rhymes, it's all I've got
(silly fools I'll just pen some more!)
But writing to those I have loved
my pen shows for sure I adored,
I write to heart strings I have tugged,
I write and write then write some more
to beg ten-spots or score a score
I wait and wait for, not a lot,
they broke or begs of mine ignored
but, I'll cadge in rhyme rather than not.
When I'm dead and write no more
(I guess I'm penned by some full stop)
have on my tombstone these words scored
"I lived my rhymes but, now, I'm not..."
go back to work to earn some more,
C.V's in rhyme? Misunderstood!
Those philistines have no rapport.
So, sell myself, a torrid whore?
(I'd not get much for what I've got)
would punters beat paths to my door?
I'll write my rhymes I like that not!
Even when I've been very good
I have to write to creditors,
I plead " my youth, my livelihood "
in rhyme, but, they know the score
and soon bailiffs are at my door,
they take my rhymes, it's all I've got
(silly fools I'll just pen some more!)
But writing to those I have loved
my pen shows for sure I adored,
I write to heart strings I have tugged,
I write and write then write some more
to beg ten-spots or score a score
I wait and wait for, not a lot,
they broke or begs of mine ignored
but, I'll cadge in rhyme rather than not.
When I'm dead and write no more
(I guess I'm penned by some full stop)
have on my tombstone these words scored
"I lived my rhymes but, now, I'm not..."
Published 28th Dec 2022
| Edited 6th May 2024
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28th Dec 2022 2:55pm
Difficult times. PS: I am at the métro station near my block yesterday. A fellow approaches me ( I have seen him once) says hello and may I speak to you in confidence? Sure...so he proceeds directly to ask me to lend him 20$: hey: we DO live in the same block.... Difficult times. Always. As if that was not enough there was this young woman sitting at the entrance in the métro. All her belongings in a push-cart. Young woman in her 20s Not damaged by drugs or booze that I could see. A very fresh look. I ask her if she would not prefer to be in a refuge for women. She tells me that they're a bunch of thieves, one of them stole from her etc.... Keep doing rhymes, dear. Kisses.
Cheers Robert.
My usual response would've been flippant and say
" got some spare change, bud, huh? huh? "
But that's cheap seeing as how you've tried to help that young woman. But she's right. Unfortunately.
I worked for the judiciary, in a homeless hostel, and the biggest gripe, the one that kept them going back to the street, was petty theft.
If you'd like an insight into panhandling, begging, etc, in the days when there was no welfare system try to get hold of a copy of W.H. Davis's " The Autobiography of a Supertramp " or George Orwell's
" Down & out in Paris. "
Luckily, I want for nothing except Caribbean holliday's, a couple of Rolls Royce's (one for weekends) Villas, gold bars, private jets, yacht parked in Monte Carlo, etc, etc, etc...
Just as an aside. One of reasons that people are on the street, in the western world, is the disappearance of the extended family.
Not many asians on the streets.
Cheers dear, cheers.
( psst got some spare change, eh?)
My usual response would've been flippant and say
" got some spare change, bud, huh? huh? "
But that's cheap seeing as how you've tried to help that young woman. But she's right. Unfortunately.
I worked for the judiciary, in a homeless hostel, and the biggest gripe, the one that kept them going back to the street, was petty theft.
If you'd like an insight into panhandling, begging, etc, in the days when there was no welfare system try to get hold of a copy of W.H. Davis's " The Autobiography of a Supertramp " or George Orwell's
" Down & out in Paris. "
Luckily, I want for nothing except Caribbean holliday's, a couple of Rolls Royce's (one for weekends) Villas, gold bars, private jets, yacht parked in Monte Carlo, etc, etc, etc...
Just as an aside. One of reasons that people are on the street, in the western world, is the disappearance of the extended family.
Not many asians on the streets.
Cheers dear, cheers.
( psst got some spare change, eh?)
28th Dec 2022 6:37pm
Agreed. One woman I talked with on the métro, a person recently arrived from Morroco and who worked in an old persons' residence told me the same: such would never happen in her country
28th Dec 2022 4:43pm
Another great one, Rew.
It is genuinely refreshing to see good rhyme that isn't a cliché rap.
It is genuinely refreshing to see good rhyme that isn't a cliché rap.
28th Dec 2022 6:38pm
Thank you kindly M.S. for your encouraging comment.
It is helpful coz the writer is often standing too close to the trees to see the fruit.
But it is good fun teasing everything out. Brick by brick.
Cheers.
It is helpful coz the writer is often standing too close to the trees to see the fruit.
But it is good fun teasing everything out. Brick by brick.
Cheers.
28th Dec 2022 9:43pm
i think you'll keep the wolf away from the door where you do your writing. I think you are very wealthy in that department.
I have those books. Fantastic stuff. That sounded like it was a tough gig at times. I agree about the extended family loss. You can live your life and never leave your flat nowadays. Technically advanced but socially regressed world.
You can have my shares in FTX? Also have some shares in Ratner's you can have?
Think the value of both = not a lot.
Dan
I have those books. Fantastic stuff. That sounded like it was a tough gig at times. I agree about the extended family loss. You can live your life and never leave your flat nowadays. Technically advanced but socially regressed world.
You can have my shares in FTX? Also have some shares in Ratner's you can have?
Think the value of both = not a lot.
Dan
28th Dec 2022 11:57pm
Cheers dear. Thanks for the read & comment.
I'll soak it up and get back to you coz there's lots
there to take in and it's a bit late for me now.
Rew
I'll soak it up and get back to you coz there's lots
there to take in and it's a bit late for me now.
Rew
