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william w asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 8 years ago

Is it possible you're a club member?C/C please? and thanks?

ASSORTED MORONS

I like my morons ordered

I like them in a row

I like to have the worst one first

To tell him where to go

I like to feel their tension-- when

I point out what they've done

I like to crack the whip a bit

If they should try to run

I like to tell or even yell

I think that they're a pain

I like to pray-- for each to play

In traffic in the rain

I like to watch them fidget

I like the time to creep

I like to see that digit

Or hear a brave one bleep

I need them all to beat it

I need them off my lawn

I need them far away from me

Thank God---I think they're gone

I need to change these glasses

It appears the one's still here

Egads, I'm in my bathroom!

I've been looking in the mirror!

Copyright 5-23-2013 William Weitzel. All Rights Reserved

EDITED VERSION

Update:

Yes, LD that last verse is always a tough nut to crack.Thanks

Update 2:

Thanks Hiram, But the whole idea of the I's, the needs, and the likes was to accentuate the fact that the guy "roughing" up the morons was himself a moron as I believe all of us are at one time or another. The cadence was supposed to be annoying, and moronic. Thanks for the C/C-----william

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  • 8 years ago
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    I laughed so hard I choked on my spinach! I was not expecting the ending at all, good post thanks for the lighthearted moment.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Last stanza (always the bug-a-boo).

    I need my clearer glasses

    It appears that one`s in here

    It`s now inside my/ the bathroom?

    Oh no! It`s in my / the mirror!.................................? (or similar choice).

    Thus you get to maintain the

    format of the first 3 lines

    in each stanza, beginning in the letter `I`..an intense device, here

    given also, the not-quite-cruel edginess of this cerebral AND visceral poem.

    made more-so by the differing beginning vowels

    of the final line in every stanza....kudos...I like this concise version.

    Edit: Just re-read as it`s a good poem to ponder,

    and see why you might wish it `as is`.

    Hmmm..mm..

    Your Q...there have been occasions

    when I have felt to be a

    fully paid-up, card-carrying member of `idiots anon`

    though YAPS has certainly cured that: - . *-------& then---------*:) (:

  • 8 years ago

    Dr. Seuss is shivering in his boots -- NOT

    Define inane and here it takes roots -- WOT?

    Meander into phrasing, try it once

    and say "I need... I need..." leave for some dunce.

    Or maybe go on wretchedly unaware

    That Whitman clones stink worse than derriers.

    Or maybe, and say, meander, define

    I can use unique start lines without blowing your mind, you know;

    regurgitated phrases do nothing for minds -- they just blow.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    precisely in simple terms such as you and Touzours hate(or are jealous of) Chelsea and AC Milan. besides the undeniable fact that I hate AC Milan, I hate guy U much greater and that i does not hesitate to celbrate while AC Milan beats guy U.

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