She used to make him smile brightly <br />but now she leaves him bleeding profusely from the pen__ <br /> <br />Clichéd verbiage <br />with an <br />over use of adjectives <br />and grossly <br />understated points <br />nothing notable <br />contained therein <br />nothing retained <br />just more linguistic crap <br />to digest <br />taste <br />like bread without butter <br />cereal without the milk <br />just empty words on a page <br />all leaves one still hungry <br />constipated and flatulent <br />nothing ventured <br />nothing gained <br /> <br />'In order to be the best <br />at what you do <br />you have to suffer <br />to be paid.' <br />said the whore to her slave___ <br /> <br />'Believe me, <br />I have tried so <br />HARD <br />to write what I know about and feel <br />but you're all used up <br />and so very worn out <br />I'm no longer inspired by your touch <br />and as of late <br />I think you have given me some <br />destructive social disease <br />Because with everything I write <br />comes another case of the clap <br />And the drinking that I do <br />and the medicine I must take <br />doesn't seem to stop the seepage <br />which drains <br />from my once articulate head and brain <br />It's just more of the same....... <br />Clichéd verbiage <br />with an over use of adjectives <br />and grossly understated points <br />nothing notable contained therein <br />with nothing to be retained <br />just more linguistic crap <br />leaving me limp and impotent.' <br /> <br />'I think it is time for me to trade you in <br />I have suffered enough <br />from your old and worn out orifices <br />Yes it is time my old whore <br />for a much younger and less angry <br />a more edifying muse.' <br />___said the Poet to his abated Laureate <br /> <br />The whore counted her money carefully <br />for the famous poet Bukowski had been known to stiff her....... <br /> <br /> <br />(2007)<br /><br />Ted Sheridan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/muses-aren-t-always-beautiful/
