Ex – Neighbors
Redneck, hillbilly, slack-jawed, inbred nightmares
Wearing their faith, an empty bud can medallion
Old truck beds filled, a rolling trash dump
Trouble by the pound, poverty by the ton
Paper doll girlfriends cut from hot rod magazines
Thwarted dreams in rear view mirrors
Here be the slum makers, who ….
Shit where they sleep and sleep in their shit
They ate the cheese at the end of this tunnel generations ago
All that remains, some dry desolate culvert of last resort
A hovel shared with lowliest of crawling life forms
A legion of unrepentant, subjugated, self-made victims
Hell-bent on rambling the woebegone express
Affiliated to the same powdered gravy train
Stir-fried with shredded paper on the side
Hellfire’s forever night, charred, uncharted
An endless haul to a dawn that never comes
© ~ Randy Bell ~ 2012
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May 10, 2012 @ 07:29:02
“Paper doll girlfriends cut from hot rod magazines
Thwarted dreams in rear view mirrors”
Great visuals! (are these really your neighbors?)
May 10, 2012 @ 10:08:54
great written images to go with that great pic, My fav was
‘They ate the cheese at the end of this tunnel generations ago’
May 10, 2012 @ 12:57:53
Thanks Mark, and I enjoyed your interview on Poetic Bloomings a couple weeks back!
May 10, 2012 @ 13:13:37
dude…where did you get that pic…it is awesome…lol…and you play well offit for sure in your verse….snort…i lied int eh sticks for a while growing up so….
May 12, 2012 @ 07:33:53
I have seen this picture before and I think I even saw something about this place on the HGTV channel that these people built this place to recycle old trailers and it is pretty amazing how they came up with it and actually built it. And I think inside of the trailers looks pretty nice and normal, not what one would expect when looking at the picture. I am trying to remember if it is only one family who lives there and I seem to recall that it is. Either way, you could possibly call this a trailer tree house. It also seems like it would be a cool place to live, well except for me because of my fear of heights. I would be okay with the first and second levels but any higher and no way could I go there.
You sure did write a good poem for what most people would think when they saw this picture. I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder in this instance.
Thanks for playing with us, this was a great Neighbor post.
Happy Theme Thursday.
God bless.
May 12, 2012 @ 08:21:14
Thank You for your comment and for a little more information on this very captivating photo!! I’ll be back to write again!