MY CAREER
i
stole a bus
i got there early
i dressed and shaved
i dropped some
names
i took the cure
i got the job
i ate azaleas
i visualized
fists
full of one hundred dollar bills
i danced like a crazy rope
i
rescued a man
i blinded a child
i bombed babylon
i locked myself in
a liquor cabinet
i lived with a bullet lodged in my brain
i worked in
a taffy factory
i worked in a rat poison mine
i worked in a kennel for
angels
i worked in a well for saviours
i ate like a pig at christmas
i
swallowed my pride
i fucked ambition
i sang an alibi song
i married
a woman
meant for another guy
i threw myself out
i followed me home
i played the mazurka
i undressed for my boss
i killed a man for no
reason
i
loved a woman for no reason
i ignored a man for no reason
i obeyed a man
for no reason
i divorced a woman for no reason
i lied in seventeen languages
i stole in seventeen languages
i apologized in seventeen languages
i
rode a man into the ground
i whipped a woman like a hound
i exchanged
my tongue for a stun gun
i
fashioned paper airplanes
i left the door unlocked
i believed in a president
who did not believe in me
i robbed the absentee landlord
i knew next
to nothing
i got paid pretty well for it
i learned my lesson
i did
not change my ways
i forgot how to laugh
i
got a little crazy
i ate my lovers' eyes
i did not listen to god
i
slept like a dying bear
i pissed frozen rain
i sat under a ghost tree
i smoked opium
in a hut in the snow
i
auditioned for death
i auditioned for death
i auditioned for death
i
rode the reality train fifty two years
i'm
not riding the reality train
no more
Copyright (c) 2005 George Wallace
About
the Author
George
Wallace is an award winning poet and journalist from New York who has
performed his work across America and in the great cities of Europe.
He
is also the Editor of the online poetry publication.
featuring some of the finest works being produced in contemporary poetry
by established and emerging authors.
News,
New & Of Note!
George Wallace is hosting a new monthly poetry event at The
Bowery Poetry Club, set for the third Thursday of every month,
6:30-7:30 p.m. The series will feature poets in performance from local, national
and international scenes. $6 admission.
