Leap Out Of Lampoon Lake Poem by John Sensele

Live, don't eke out a living on the fringe of survival
Wasting time complaining, frolicking in your dead bed
Envying neighbours, wishing dreams dished out revival
Fortunes dreamt, green dollars groomed your homestead

Posting scarlet red lip selfies on Facebook
No takers pay attention
Cantakerous comments attract the harried hook
Thought would free you from the suspended animation

In which you hold wealth and health prisoner
Trouncing school, thinking it cool
To squander time, to dangle carrots to a prude pensioner
Who for frivolity's sake employs the tool

You parade in the charade
Deluding you into waving a magic wand
Managing your self esteem to degrade
To a low ebb where you market the brand

You believe fetches a premium price
In a creature comfort market
Where for a bowl of rice and a fun's slice
You transmute into a troubadour target

Kicking your can on a merry-go-round
Accelerating to perdition destination
Where lechers and vultures abound
Waiting to accomplish annihilation mission

For losers and boozers who skate where angels fear to tread
Pulling pigeons from hats, attracting swirling sentiments
Putting up a bravado face, claiming you're unafraid
When you reap on a silver platter corny condiments

Unless you snap awake
Resolve to straighten out rough edges
Plunging your destination into a lampoon lake
Overflowing, bursting its banks beyond fatigued Facebook pages.