A Redneck Intellect

A Redneck Intellect

Written by: T. L. O’Neal

 

Met someone the other day

That thought she was cool

Funny being that…

She hardly made it out of school

 

She was quoting this and that

From forwards to back

The whole damn time

Showing her plumber’s crack

 

She spoke of the philosophy of Plato

And Willie Nelson alike

Talked of great things she could do

Even dogs she could psyche

 

She thinks she’s better at writing

Than Shakespeare or Poe

To hear her talk about it

She’s even better than Marlowe

 

Learned it all at the school

Of hard-a*s knocks

While sitting on a stump

Picking at her socks

 

Writing on such deep subjects

As puppies and kittens

While planting pot

In the corner of her kitchen

 

Living in a psychedelic dreamland

From all the drugs once used

While dwelling in a private little world

In a place in her head unused 

 

She said I looked like Jesus

In her delusional haze

It must be really tough

Living in a perpetual daze

 

Now I’ve been in the nut-ward

More than several times over

But she needs it more than I

Her and that old dog Rover

 

How can I debate

Such a literary mind

I don’t have the skills

Or a plumber’s crack behind

 

I couldn’t help but laugh

At all of her ditties

Being that she was burnout

Sometime in the sixties

 

Such a brilliant mind

Should never be a waste

It still fills up the head

If even misplaced

 

You just can’t stop someone like that

Don’t even try to object

When you’re talking with

A redneck intellect

 

Reviews

[Hawksmoor]

LOL. Cool.



She was quoting this and that
From forwards to back
The whole damn time
Showing her plumber�s crack


THis stanza mad eme start over. By the time I got to this point, it was flowing like a river, and I hadda experience that again. I read this twice before I wrote this, and I gotta say, I think I'm gonna end up reading it again. Laughter is needed in the world a lot more than people think. Good looking out on this.

Hawksmoor...From The Bleed.

[Paul Grimsley]

this made me smile. really enjoyed it. i have definitely met this person on more than one occassion and in more than one guise

[Crystal]

Ha! Great fun at the end of a rather rough day! Thanks for that! I am from the south so I love the genuine dialect and comfortable ease of your writing. Yet, you do so without sounding ignorant... I can tell in your words that you are intelligent and clever... I admire that!

[~ Tex]

Brother, your words are always true and righteous and a RIOT too! You tell a story like Twain, and I am hanging on every last word to find out the ending! This was truly one of my Fav pieces! And brother, do I know the type about which you write! LMAO

[Bluehealer]

She thinks she�s better at writing
Than Shakespeare or Poe
To hear her talk about it
She�s even better than Marlowe

Alright dude - here's your power. You speak in an elementary vernacular, maintaining a southern twang, and then you obscurely reference the REAL Shakespeare himself (or at least the conjecture surrounding) - and that is impressive... it took me a moment to catch...

This is the grand benefit of the Southern dialect - most read, or hear, and assume a lack of education or experience - then comes to "rope-a-dope", the hummdinger... They never expect a wit and rhyme that can accompany such antebellum English verse.

Keep 'em guessin',

Loved it -

B

[Rc R. Vagilidad]

haha.. cute all-over...yay! i could see myself talking to an old lady with such intellect that you could have your nose bleeding profusely over the conversation.. haha.. talking about the things in "perpetuity" and things from the days you are still an unidentified matter... whoa..cool one... bet the rhyming isn't a forced-out coz it sounded out all too well... as a matter of fact, i like how the words used for the rhyme,,, it didn't took away the thought... funny how these oldies got their intellectual conspiracies that upto an intimate thresholds of their lives they still on the premise of speaking out their thought, though i wonder how spontaenous it gets.. i can't wait to be old and know how!!! hmmm....

[Christopher Tait]

An enjoyable read. I'm sure Miss "Redneck Intellect" would be proud that she inspired a piece like this. Great job!

[Mishel Rosario Reyes]

Terry, made me laugh, *hugs*

[Christy Hauck]

The picture scares me!

This was funny, yet sad. To think that someone could have become something so great and yet she let herself sink as low as she did, it's a fact of life.

Very humbling.

[Scott Casale]

Cool.

[Penelope Allen]

I love this poem. Mainly because I call myself a redneck socialist which makes sense to me but few others. What I know being a lowly worker is that each person has something to offer but it's a pain when they don't realize where their talents really reside. Thanks for asking me to read this - it helped me quantify just where I fit in - in the grand scheme of things. I am not worthy.