Preston Urges

By Ewan

Fri, 20 Feb 2009
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7 comments
 

Listen,
it's time to stop with
being serious.
Go watch
Sullivan's Travels,
you'll see what I mean.
Let's let
our hair down, maybe
even shave it off.
Tell your
direst foe stupid
jokes 'til you like him.
Laughter
is so much louder
in the dark. Don't think
you can
change what you can't:
you're no politician.
Watch Tom
lose to Jerry; that's
the order of things.
Either
you laugh at crises,
or you drown in tears.
No-one's
reading Kierkegaard,
only Comic Cuts.

Certificate U
Poem
Miscellaneous

Comments

Submitted by chuck on
Well since you ask I don't know either. Maybe Jerry Springer has got it right?

Submitted by Ewan on
Jerry Springer? Hell no, I meant the mouse.

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Submitted by onemorething on
I think this is great. I would prefer it if the last three lines were incorporated...ie, because no-one's reading Kierkegaard, only Comic Cuts. It would read better to me, but I don't suppose it matters much.

 

Submitted by Ewan on
Hmm... perhaps it's less obvious like this. That's a good thing. Thanks for reading. Congrats on your latest cherry, that poem was a cracker.

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Submitted by onemorething on
Yes, that works just as well. And thank you, funny how these things work, I was in two minds about the whole thing.

 

Submitted by chuck on
A 'because' would have suggested exegesis. Ewan likes to make us work a bit.

Submitted by sean mcnulty on
Brilliant! Not wanting to appear sychophantic, but anyway, you inspire me, Ewan. The title alone is gold.