10,000 tiny lighters at a Whitesnake concert

[RC]

If you ever see me
With my arms outstretched
Please don’t consider the cross
Crucifixion is so Day after Christmas
So 5000 years ago

It’s like your favourite 80's mixed tape
With all the love songs
Bulk erased

Instead
Pretend you see a totem pole
And imagine me
A wolverine lantern

On top of me
Sits a baboon who farts
A farting baboon
Who looks just like me
In my younger years
Yesterday
He keeps me humble

Above us
Sits Gumby and Pokey
Sometimes
They’re Gokey and Pumby
It doesn’t matter
They’re flexible
They get it on

And underneath the both of them
Sits a small pile of rocks
And buried beneath it
Are the bones
Of the first dog I never owned
We called him Duke

I guess that makes my porn name
Duke Lamson

And then there’s the totem pole’s
Carvers
Everyone who’s ever hurt me
And everyone who I’ve damaged
In my time

But the best part is
At the highest point of the pole
Is a bird
A Larry Bird
A leisure suit Larry Bird
And at sunset each day
He takes a jump shot
That arcs like a beautiful
Story

As my claws become
10’000 tiny lighters
At a Whitesnake concert
Burning the night alive

It’s a pretty sweet ass
Totem poll
A black bear pooping honey
Sweet

Everybody loves everybody
And we never say
“Excuse me”
When we kiss the sky

[RC]

How did this poem get over 100 reads in a day?  Is the counter broken?

[Duncan Shields]

Well, I read it over seventy times so that's the lion's share right there.

[sue]

would you not love 100 comments?

[Jimmy Shaker]

Well, ain't that something...Whitesnake...my wife (before I met her!) was David Cloverdale's lover when Whitesnake was white hot...

JS

[Father Goose]

Wow RC, you actually drew attention from David Coverdale's ex-girlfriend's current boyfriend with this......that's a pretty big claim to fame..........well for a slam poet anyway.......personally I would be beaming with pride!

Not a bad piece too...I like the part about the bones of your long dead dog. Incidentally, my porn name would be Zorro Wimbledon.

CFGW

[RC]

Actually my porn name could be Tina Lamson as well.  But I didn't want to consider all the tranny porn I would have to be in.