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Warsteiner Rant

   First thing I notice:this stuff smells like a skunk."Quality from Germanyyou deserve."Ah, Germansand their ways…This is what they think I deserve...
I'd hate to see what they'd think
if they didn't like me.Oh if I could getquietly plasteredin the comfort of my homeand think dirty thoughts.But I am bound
to rules and stipulations,an arrogant bastard.I want comfort,but wait:I have dealt with comfort,with comfort, love, and safety.Oh! Bloody safety!I could cry from such inaety!I want life!"Where in life is life?"I scream.Lifewas riding the bus.Now I have a car.Life was sweetbreads.I had license to create.Now I cannot evencook at home.I am festering inside;half a manwith half my ambition.So I drink.Madly, I want to roast chickenand dream of sex.Instead there is TV and the net:house arrest,desperate again.
Depression, another swig.This calms my nervesuntil I’m in bed.
Drunk, drink, drown.Maybe a pill or twojust to deal.Still I’m onlya quarter way through.And there isno sign of things improving.Eventually I’ll sleep;but that's not comingsoon enough.Ooh, heavy eyelids,dreams,drink,four more in the fridge.I’ve an empty house now.What to do,what to dowith it?Big dreams,little dreams.Somewhere in between dreams.Think?
No, I therefore I am not.
No longer here.Arrested,handcuffed,bound,gagged,hostage!My liver needs more abuse,
so I skull a handful of pain meds
wondering if I'll bleed the bastard
for all the times I tasted
my own yellow bile.From skunk to dill:quite a change.Heavy eyelids: crazy!I want a break,adulthood?Good moments and bad,but the personal freedom part?A load of crap,no such thing:pack it in.I amweary.
— Conect11, Oct 12, 2007

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Ink Dragon

18 years 8 months ago

Great title

But I do think your pacing would work better if you didn´t fragment your sentences. For example: A load of crap, no such thing: pack it in - I am weary. And maybe you should reconsider where the whole thing leads up to (those last lines) and kick out some of the asides, like the references to the German. I think you switched trains of thought there...Poetic Regards, ID
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Conect11

18 years 7 months ago

hey Ink

thanks for your sensible suggestions. I was rather, how shall we say, hmmm... intoxicated when I wrote this the other night, so I had no pacing, hell I had no sense, lol! The references to the Germans was because Warsteiner Beer is a German beer, and I happened to be looking at the label right when I wrote that line "quality beer from Germany... etc." I can understand the line about "aryans" being perhaps not the best thing, mein(e) freund. Like I said, drunk :) Mark W.
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Conect11

17 years 4 months ago

wow,

looking back on it with a sober mind (and no ensuing hangover) I can see you were spot on with your critique of the mechanics and fragmenting. While I removed some of the more sensitive things I put about Germany, I felt the need to at least leave it referenced, as I was describing looking at the bottle lable. Thanks so much for your wise and correct advice. Mark W. Galatians 5:22-23 "22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against these, there is no law!" My favorite verse(s) in the Bible
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Ink Dragon

17 years 4 months ago

wow, too,

I had almost forgotten about this one... I enjoyed reading it again, and I think you´ve shaped it up beautifully. Sincerely, ~Nina
weirdelf

weirdelf

18 years 8 months ago

For all its flaws

(and I can just about see inside your head while you were writing it) I think you say exactly what you wanted to say. The title says it. A rant. Probably no need to come back to this one. cheers, Jess
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IKnowNoBox

18 years 7 months ago

Better in words then blood this poem

I have one coming to the surface in regards to the mental heath system soon it will bust loose,thanks for the nudge Mark. Once again if you need to talk Message me. In ink, David
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Pencilme

17 years 4 months ago

Eyelids

Heavy eyelids is all I took from this jumm, B O R I N G ~
Blue_Halcyon

Blue_Halcyon

17 years 4 months ago

Wow

I liked this even though it wasn't exactly a happy topic. The feelings & descriptions worked well for me - even if it didn't for everyone else. I don't Warsteiner either.
themoonman

themoonman

17 years 4 months ago

Mark...

I like your honest approach... it is becoming! and I wasn't bored at all... self-realization poetry helps to get it out or accept ones self... Richard