Orchid

the razor slays the hair
like a straight-line wind does
against an orchid display,

the goofy geek is now
a jack-booted thug that's
ready for curb stomping,

not!

Reviews

[Mockingbird]

sounds like he just got his shaved head and is ready to transform from the geek to a thug. i wonder what made him decide to do this.

[Pax]

frankly as i read the poem it was hard to understand but i scroll below...now it made me laugh...lol...fun and i like it...

[Kenneth The Poet]

It was a weird set of events that led to this one.

[Pax]

indeed...

[...]

~ haha!!
~ i read the comments below and realized what this is about...
~ excellent deployment of "not" ...

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thank you. I agree.

[.]

:)

[Kenneth The Poet]

lol I love the title as you know probably why :) this is an groovy write with a wink, I love it

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thanks a bunch, E.L.

So welcome always a pleasure!

[Ephialtes Jones]

SKINHEAD poetry!
interesting.

he looks like the straight-line wind,
but, inside, he's still just a broken orchid display....hmmmm
or is this about mustard?

[Kenneth The Poet]

No, I work in a garden center in a big box store and it was windy and the orchid display kept getting knocked over, like trees in a forest. I ended up shaving my head that day because my hair was too long. It came from there.

[Ephialtes Jones]

oh. lol/ I was off

[TLK]

This poem makes no sense. Frankly, I find it baffling, absurd, and in some odd way demeaning. Can geeks really become jack-booted thugs? Is curb-stomping really something to celebrate? And has 'not!' as an interjection been acceptable since the early 90s?

Oh well, at least I really like your new profile picture. You've removed a lot of hair and I can't help but think that this massive change would be suitable for a cheeky and amusing poem about, for example, razors slaying hairs... and geeks becoming skinheads...

That kind of poem would be very good indeed -- perhaps even worthy of a sarcastically amusing comment beneath it.

This, however, IS NOT THAT POEM.

(Or is it?)

[Kenneth The Poet]

This is an old picture. I shaved my head again. I posted this very picture to my social site and one of my friends thought I looked like a Neo-Nazi. It's basically saying a physical change does not change the person within. I ran out of syllables at the end, hence the choice of not!

[TLK]

It's the swastika tattoo and love of the number 88 because it represents HH that makes you a neo-nazi.

I was at a free concert a few years ago and enjoyed watching a stereotypically-dressed ageing UK skinhead dancing with his black wife/girlfriend and their young daughter.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Irony writ large there. I forgot those little facts too.