Welcome to the Colosseum
Where pain is pleasure and it is our pleasure to be of service
Lay back on the rack
The waxing poetics are hot and the iced humor is very dry
The fence sitter splinters are sharp but the elitist tongues are sharper
There are many painful pleasures which abound
We guarantee your total satisfaction
Or we'll give you fifty lashes of your back for free
For no one ever enters with a smile
Who doesn't leave here with a grimace
(2007)
Ted, have you not read my (304) A Funny thing didn't happen on the way to the Forum? It gives us a little inspiration now and then, if little else. LOL Danny
This is the forum I know and love. Ah Ted... come away in and join us. You'll love it...It must have inspired hundreds of poems! ! A new species of war poetry! Take care sir.
Oh, yes, teh heh heh! Actually sweetheart, caustic wit and all, you're mightily talented. t x
Well Ted, there are those whose goats are always gotten - as the saying goes. The forum is like a freak show on most days and every so often someone says something that is about poetry. This made me laugh, as do most of the participants at the forum....not a whole lot of substance, IMO. Thanks for being your brilliant self and writing about things from your own delicious perspective.
Interesting approach here to The topic of forums and how unforgivinly fellow poets judge each other
i feel the fence sitter's splinters, too, but oh how i love the forum!
'Now, class, Say this fast, Five times in a row, So you'll all know: ' FENCE SITTER SPLINTERS FENCE SITTER SPLINTERS FENCE SITTER SPLINTERS FENCE SITTER SPLINTERS FENCE SITTER SPLINTERS! ! ! Now, once you have wiped the spital off your faces, You may resume your places! '
This was great man, Funny in such way people don't see much of anymore. Thank you for a great start to my day =)
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Ted this is a fantastic poem...I'm from from LA so i get the reference, i get the way it is in LA as a 'get beat down or beat down' city. The Forum being the center for battle, like the Romans, that city loves it's gladiator heritage. the poem asks me: Do I?