image from theurbantwist.com
Crazytown
“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide
the madness.”--Allen Ginsberg.
Aardvarks on golden leashes are
Becoming a common sight in Crazytown;
Cats wearing snake skin zoot suits,
Dancing the bop with their kitties,
Every one of them with slick-backed hair
Fighting other Toms in back alleys.
Gyrating pooches howling the blues,
Having a ball in their pork-pie hats.
Inside the station the rat police plot
Jacked-up charges and bogus fines.
Kind kangaroos are the court judges,
Leaving leeway for folks in Crazytown.
Many of us fear being there late at night;
Nobody, certainly, carries very much cash.
Others are drawn to the spirited melee.
Prostitute opossums wear those short skirts,
Quite ready to offer love for sale, cuz wild
Rendezvous’s happen often in Crazytown.
Glenn Buttkus
Posted over at dVerse Poets Pub
stuv
ReplyDeleteLOVE those prostitute opossums! :)
Surey
They're
Unique...
Vicious in their
Wiley ways in Crazy Town, that
Zoo of a town! :)
LOVE it!
When I posted this prompt, I told my husband this "I love the idea of a sestet because we'll only be reading six line poems....except for Glenn...I KNOW he'll do a multiple sestet poem." TRULY! I DID say that. And I LOVE your post! :) Thanks, my friend...should be some fun and interesting reading on the dVerse trail today.
Oh my, this made me laugh so. Living in Crazytown, I'm so happy that you've pointed out all the salient features. This is great!
ReplyDeleteHa... this was so much fun... great idea, and of course Crazytown has a new meaning for many of us today. I just imagine this menagerie lose in a certain house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
ReplyDeleteClever! Not a place I ever want to visit though!
ReplyDeleteYou almost went through the whole alphabet. Nice description of Crazytown.
ReplyDeleteA whole town complete with bent police, thieves and hookers.... it'll make a great 'toon. I enjoyed this Crazytown!
ReplyDeleteExcellent! What a fun read.
ReplyDeleteYeah, rendezvous of beat and carnivalesque and Disney. You heard right (have you seen those subliminal messages in the kids cartoons?) What a ride!
ReplyDeleteSeems like a fun escape from life Glenn ! Love that: Others are drawn to the spirited melee.
ReplyDeleteYou realize that possums and especially prostitute possums because of their body temp throw off all manner of diseases. You almost hit all the letters - good for you!
ReplyDeleteA delightful read, images going crazy in my head...Obviously Crazytown is lively if nothing else. good job and so many letters used.
ReplyDeleteFor a while there I thought Crazytown was going to last through the entire alphabet. What glorious fun this was. The Trumpet's latest tweets have me in a fine state of disgruntlement, so this was a welcome respite!
ReplyDeleteOutstanding! Bravo!
ReplyDeleteOh my, you had fun! Crazytown for sure.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun and interesting poem! Good job.
ReplyDeletei loved it and was kind of swaying to a Crazytown beat in my head like from Aristocats (the cartoon) when the cool bad cats play a blues number, there are poems we read that just make our day better than we started, yours really has been one of those for me today - I would like a free pass to this place!! well one!!
ReplyDeleteWow! You really went to (crazy) town on this one, Glenn! I can imagine those 'Cats wearing snake skin zoot suits' and the gyrating pooches in pork-pie hats! I love the wordplay in 'Kind kangaroos are the court judges' and the image in my head when I read:
ReplyDelete'Prostitute opossums wear those short skirts,
Quite ready to offer love for sale...'
Love the light-hearted treatment Glenn One can expect anything and everything in Crazytown!
ReplyDeleteAll in a long 3 sestets.
Hank
Ha! I was hoping you'd finish the Crazy Town alphabet, Glenn :)
ReplyDeleteI have to love a poem that starts with aardvark. I just have to!
ReplyDeleteFun poem!
ReplyDeleteLove your creativity, especially prostitute possums. Well done.
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