TIN MAN

TIN MAN
Detergent washes away my sin shedding it like snakeskin
Leeches own my poison as I drink to cleanse the evil from within
I am a rustic modern version Tin Man
under my foot no expiration date only made in China
The ultimate stan playing a surreal deadly Russian roulette version of hangman
I'm in a nightmarish video game with only one man
and no quarter given to an empty hand

My only move is not to

Justify to just survive
Life expectancy never expected
My birth delivered D.O.A.
consider me the results of foul child play
as I sink to the bottom of New England's murky bay
Stunt doubles standing sniffing glue at my eulogy
with an empty casket into dark earth
Tombstone covered in sheep's cloth
Hours later a quarter lay on my fresh grave
inscribed on the underside is the word "slave".
by the unknown sith

Reviews

[Victim of cyber bully a..]

Tin man is my favorite charater from Wizard Oz. I like how you make allegory for our modern times. We slowly all became tinman and women without realizing we just became own slaves of others dreams. Maybe just instead Japan I will be put China . I agree we are in state of D . O . A. by the way also my favorite band from my youth . I also enjoyed rhyming its make this writing more spooky.

[The Unknown Sith]

I agree I was thinking china too. I needed a second opinion on that one.

[Victim of cyber bully and slanderious lies]

I think Japan is not anymore leading economic like a before. Althought i think like 3 months ago was at news they make some giantic robot. Anyway China slowly became great empire and soon all world have to learn Chinese characters . And when this all start when we all buying products made in China.

[barleygirl]

I am envious of writers like you who can come up with such a freaky flood of weirdness & put it together into something that feels like life. Your imagination is off-the-charts, as far as coming up with details & scenarios that plodding poets like myself never come in contact with. I love the tin man opening, but this poem quickly drifted from that for me. I felt this was a way to thumb your nose at all the expectations we carry around about life & how things should unfold. It's a crap shoot (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Dhara_Ditzy Kat]

Has living in the world become more and more like playing that nightmarish video game with just ourselves? Yes to my thinking, especially after the pandemic and all the isolation. I absolutely enjoyed your dark imagery here and the very interesting analogy of the tin man to today's man.