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Mar 01, 2011
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DEGE
DEGE
If I compare myself
to Bukowski, Burroughs, Poe or Thompson
Take it not as literary self-aggrandizement
Just that in many ways I made them all look like wowsers
and yet will probably live fifty years or more than any of them.
I've contracted a terrible disease.
Where I expected to be immortal,
I now know I have
DEGE
Degenerative Elven Genetic Enhancement
oh woe
alack alas
I won't live forever,
nor my poetry.
But I'll have a fucking great time doing it.
About This Poem
Last Few Words: My doctor is disgusted with how healthy I am. All the physical pain of the last few weeks turned out to be costachondritus, it is just an inflammation between some of the ribs caused by heavy lifting.
Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back
Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft
Comments
mona
14 years 4 months ago
good you are ok I was able to hear the happiness from your ....
good you are ok I was able to hear the happiness from your voice today
Intelligent work
well done ;)
Kailashana2
14 years 4 months ago
Told you the elf is
Told you the elf is irrepressible and here you had your doubts!
Hugs.
~A.
weirdelf
14 years 4 months ago
thanks bee
Now I don't want to seem ungrateful but have I mentioned that your icon "keep right" could be interpreted as an exhortation towards fascism/Nazism etc, as in left and right wing politics?
Or are you just being a shit-stirrer like me?
Geezer
14 years 4 months ago
Must have been...
those big balls. Or all that heavy thinking, you've been doing. LOL. Good to see you so disgustingly healthy, I guess we can look forward to many more years Elfin mischief, ~ Gee