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I am a retired Ironworker(35 years Local 7), a lifetime Boston, Mass resident.  I am old enough to know better - but don't.

ALAS, ALACK AND BALDERDASH

Blog Posted:3/18/2022 6:40:00 AM

Let us weave together faded cloth

Edges lately shared with moth

A tartan stained with Haggis broth

 

Tie-dyed remnants of a past

Streaks of paint from banners splashed

A free love economy long since crashed

 

bra-less tee shirts, nippled rings

a toneless tongue that sadly sings

of a loneliness a future brings

 

Blend it, spin it, tear it asunder

Bleed it of its living thunder

Create a bleeding patchwork blunder

 

For then was then and now is now

And a golden calf is still a cow

So write what you want and take a bow

 

John G. Lawless

©3/18/2022

 

 



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Constance
La France
Date: 3/22/2022 9:03:00 AM
John, wonderful write ~Constance
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Edward
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Date: 3/20/2022 4:39:00 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed, John:-) Thank you very much indeed!
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Suzette
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Date: 3/20/2022 3:45:00 AM
!!!!! Applause!!!!
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James Marshall
Goff
Date: 3/19/2022 10:45:00 AM
So cool John! really sings off the page!
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Kim
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Date: 3/19/2022 5:43:00 AM
What Eve said and also the third line - great imagery!
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Leo Larry
Amadore
Date: 3/18/2022 10:26:00 AM
Well done, thoughtful, and very enjoyable. Thanks for posting this!
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L Milton
Hankins
Date: 3/18/2022 8:35:00 AM
Rich tercets with contemporary meaning and impact. I remember those days well, John. And, yes, a "golden calf" will always be a cow! I enjoyed your poem immensely.
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John Lawless
Date: 3/18/2022 9:36:00 AM
it started out as a metaphor for mixed forms of poetry and just took off to the 70's.....
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Andrea
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Date: 3/18/2022 7:18:00 AM
A profound poem that for me speaks volumes for the utter mess the world has gotten into. Great images, John
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John Lawless
Date: 3/18/2022 9:34:00 AM
just having some fun after throwing out an old shirt...threadbare, tattered, and possessed of many secrets.
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Eve
Roper
Date: 3/18/2022 6:54:00 AM
bra-less tee shirts, nippled rings a toneless tongue that sadly sings of a loneliness a future brings I've might have been around for but yuck on the nipple rings.. Blessings to you and yours
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John Lawless
Date: 3/18/2022 9:33:00 AM
Well, it's going to hit the 70's today in Boston and the college students will do their best to expose the fallacy of clothing.

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