The end of days
is the ash covering
the psyche of those
who look up at the sky
waiting for it to fall.
_______________________________
Growing
up cold war
taught
me to sit
in
the hall with
my
head between my knees
while
I watched my friends
shut
the door on the fallout shelter.
I
didn’t do that this time.
I
grabbed a lawn chair,
a
video camera, and a six pack
to
watch all hell break loose.
Wasn’t
much to it.
It
was more like a wet
fourth
of July when
only
half the fireworks
were
able to reach the sky.
Those
aliens who came
looking
for specimens
of
human higher intelligence
didn’t
care much for those
survivalist
Bubba Joe’s.
They
packed up their
saucers
without a goodbye
and
burnt the ground
getting
the hell back
to
whatever galaxy
they
dropped out of.
Once
the sky cleared
all
I could hear was
the
neighbor complaining
about
how he would have
to
eat peas for the next
three
years.
So
much for Mayan predictions,
guess
I am going to have
to
get my driver’s license renewed.
©Susie
Clevenger 2012
Written for Real Toad's Out Of Standard With Izy
16 comments:
Clever commentary here Susie. Funny and a happy ending to boot. Yes, and we will all need to renew our drivers license, even after 12/22/12......great to see your work posting on my prompt. Happy Thursday!
This is funny - and it's interesting how you can look back and see the sky is falling when you were a kid - just as now, the sky is falling again!
I love the opening stanza, set aside a bit from the remainder of the poem. You told the story with a wry wit. I found it very amusing that our invaders found little of worth here and left us to a questionable survival.
Haha... That IS funny!
They found us so uncivilised, they ran the other way. Too funny.
Ya, I remember sitting in the hall with head between knees too; and now, when I look back..I think how silly. What a futile gesture, but we were all fooled, weren't we? In the light of all that can happen now, the cold war was a piece of cake. And, ya, get the drivers' license renewed...and it is undoubtedly safe to buy green bananas. I enjoyed this.
Good stuff, Susie. Made me laugh. The alien equivalent of "Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here" and I loved the neighbor complaining about three years of eating peas.
K
haha yeah you might want to get it renewed...too funny...i am def intersted in what will happen year end...there will surely be those that put off doing things just in case, some fun in this ma'am
Susie, I love you. This was so much fun to read...love the laconic tone and yes, I'd be right there with you, watching the whole thing....in fact, my poem runs along somewhat the same line. I woke up this morning with it in my head, couldnt think of anything last night.
I also need to get mine renewed a few days before the Mayan apocalypse ;-)
Loved the way your experience echoed through this poem.
...and life goes on after all!
BAhahaha this totally rocks! I LOVE it!
I would grab myself a chair, pull it right up beside you.
I would bring a bottle of fine wine (you could keep your beer) ...
Wouldn't it be great fun?
Love that you used aliens and that they weren't interested in our "intelligence," lol!! Well done, Susie!!
This is funny, smart, and perfect!
i like the nostalgia and humor in this
http://zongrik.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/foam/
This is terrific - wry, laconic and wise too. Love it.
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