Wise guy Ricochet

I'm a straight up sure shot wise guy
That much you surely know
Just another rhythmic trickster
working his poets flow

My voice is purely masculine
with no apologies
A testament to testosterone
would be my effigy

my syllables are six and eight
As high as I can count
I seldom write in metaphors
Can't figure that crap out

I shy away from free verse flow
cause I can't make it pop
Poetic free verse rambling
oh god please make it stop

My one line review flip remarks
Some don't appreciate
Musings of my past deployments
Most people can't relate

My humor can be juvenile
or guttural at best
My circumstances obvious
by USMC jest

Perhaps you think me unrefined
A childish kind of fool
For writing vulgar nursery rhymes
just fit to ridicule

Perhaps you think there is no place
For Baby Ricochet
and he should should bury his keyboard
In someone's unmarked grave

But that would never ever do
We need a voice like mine
A trickster dodging IED'S
Oh that will do just fine

There is one Baby Ricochet
and that wise guy is me
The common man's poetic voice
on the good old WC

Reviews

[Annabelle Lee]

Thank you for that, Rico. Lol we love ya here!

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Annabelle

[Tom]

An upstanding, outstanding, poetic biography, honest with no frills attached !

You get my salute again Rico for this excellent witty, ditty !

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you tom.

[Inda]

Another great write full of humor and wit!

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you inda

[Will]

Brash and not giving a damn as always, I see. Well done, my friend. Good poem

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you will

[Muse]

check check:

and he should should bury his keyboard

this is more than six or seven syllables...I cannot score this...it sucks. ;)

[Baby Ricochet]

Lol! Thank you muse

[Muse]

lol you are welcome

[Pete Langley]

May you always stick in the craw, man! Uncommon is what you are....uncommonly identifiable, uncommonly poetic, uncommonly direct, uncommonly insightful. Keep truckin, Mark. You`re fine. P.

[Baby Ricochet]

Lol! Thank you Pete. I appreciate it

[KAOlmsted]

HA! Yeah. F**k a bunch of haters. You are the deep, southern drawl, masculine voice of the WC, Baby.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Kimmer. It's great to hear from you

[KAOlmsted]

Always my pleasure, gorgeous. I'm goofing off on a fine (cold *laugh*) Saturday afternoon xoxo

[Ees]

Love it. The unapologetic male voice is what I like about you. Straight forward and real. Every person has their own self and there no reason for any of those selves not to be voiced in poetry and I do think that we need your voice here. I believe people need to be reminded of things you have to say. And you are funny. When did poetry become so serious. There is no need for that!
Great job!

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Ees

[Mark]

and may you live to write thousands more my friend. You always make me chuckle. :)

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Tom

[Joyce S. Greene]

You're one of a kind, BR, that's for sure! I always get a kick out of your writes and wouldn't want you to write in any other way.