O! They Say So Poem by Freeyad Ibrahim

O! They Say So - Poem by Freeyad Ibrahim
O! They say So

said: walking is healthy.
They said: No!
I said: Nietzsche says so.
They said: Yes exactly, oh!

I said: an infertile woman is not
a tattered doormat as some say.
They said: No, she is really so.
I said: O! No. It is not so.
They said: that's what the prophets say.

I told a joke,
It fell flat.
No one laughed,
or opened a jaw.
I said: it is juhha's joke,
It is he who said so
Or Bernard Shaw
Everybody then laughed
No more ado

He wrote a wonderful fiction
With his name below
On the cover.
One by one they come
And one by one they go
Humming
The writer we don't know

The next day he saw
with admiration and awe
hundreds of readers
onlookers with no measure
bending over his humble book.
As if they found a treasure
When he came closer
To get a better look
He came to know:
An unknown clown
had placed a well-known name
in place of his own name
Italiano Americano,
Whose name is:
Da Vinci Brown

O, small men with big brains,
Who live in anonymity!
You are what you dress
It is the cover and colors
And what you put on your head
That matters
for the public
No matter
what the head confines
under the skull
even you are in mind HIGH
In their sight you lie DOWN

Freyad Hugo
Heerenveen