Thumb's Down

I won't be hitch-hiking just yet, due to a sore thumb, which I extend into a premonition of the final thumbs down from the Emperor of the Universe...!

My thumb’s been sore for more than two weeks. Why

I am not sure but it’s sure come to be

A stumbling block, fumbling whenever I

Use hands, mumbling, grumbling in agony

This sum total of thumping misery

Should be a rule of thumb, a digital

Denominator of numbness. Come, see

How glum I am without my thumb. It’s all

Just like Tom Thumb’s blues, losing it. Hassle

Is endless, fingers friendless, thundery sky

I wonder as I wander, somebody

Crawl underneath this rumbling tumbril

Pull me undone, unbecoming to die

Not done with strumming strings and swinging free

Author's Note

This is true. My thumb's nearly better so i might risk a strum of the guitar tonight, but I don't think I could go as far as some swinging free!

Reviews

[Tony]

Have you tried a pick?
Use hands, mumbling, grumbling in agony...........( I have been here!)
Also, the premonition was a weird, and obscure, transition.
Fun, interesting read. Como Siempre!

[mysticgmekeepr]

Hi Tony, glad you are on the mend (or at least your thumb is)
I'm still trying to get back in the swing of things since I returned from my trip to Colorado. I posted some pictures on myspace.

Attempting to get back in the rhythm of reading, writing and posting. I have poems germinating but have not given birth to them as yet. Soon I hope.