On a sprawling lawn
swallowing a hapless worm,
plucky robin tweets!
© 2017 by bob plainwilder
Arts + Letters from the Bay & Way Beyond
dispassionately witless
wide-eyed wonder grim & glum
marching to a giant
money making corporate drum
compunctionless & witless
wide-eyed wonder grim & glum
marcheth to a giant
money making corporate drum
why do this
whats it mean
an angst inducing ant hill scheme
at some bigwigs beck & call
a treadmillionaire
just anudda bugged out gus
squeezing in some unbecoming
wappledop commuter bus
talk about a pritty dim
forgotten slopey shouldered meme
strapped down here & stunted
an angst inducing ant hill scheme
far from sparkly mountainside
nowhere near a shimmery scene
instead squinched & zapped inside
an angst inducing ant hill scheme
© 2023 by bob plainwilder
Sidney P. & Tony C. playing
Da Defiant Ones!
a tres significant filmic comment
1950 Jim Crow south:
one man black, one man white
a desperate bedraggled pair
In a tawdry deep south chain gang
racing off one day
brutal lawmen closing in
aiming to blow out their brains…
Sidney P. & Tony C. playing
Da Defiant Ones!
Insane existential threats & terror
dis film did address much that’s still not done…
sadly social problems
keep so many on the run!
Hats off to its shiny points
Hollywood’s inventive drum,
dis shtory told a poignant way…
Sidney P. & Tony C. playing
Da Defiant Ones!
© 2023 by bob plainwilder