Benjibopper

Here's how it works:

I write an email (from my work) to my wife (at her work) with a line like:

just contemplating the things that think

And she writes back with something like:

skating around on the hockey rink

And I write back and she writes back and before you know, blammo! cheesy poetry from a work-flow, floetry (yes, like the R&Bhiphop group). Here's the results. Cheesy, but funcheesy:

just contemplating the things that think
skating around on the hockey rink
all those intellectual jocks
pushing me into the penalty box

where I vent intellectual rage
breaking every pressure gauge
boxcar smoke from ears
salty hot frustrated tears

tossed beer on hair
and politics of laissez faire
i'm tired of this right wing bunk
lefties sometimes twice the skunk

i want to play for neither team
i want to swing both ways
i'm done with every world regime
taking up non-competitive play

i like families and value them too
i like animals free not in zoos
tradition isn't always sour
the old ways not so dour

but new is also often fun
trips kids into new realms
myopia can come undone
the system overwhelmed

these skates hurt my feet
they're made of deceit
the laces are too tight
their colour is too white

Labels: Poetry