Cats of Mine [POEMS]

**Schrödinger** · February 23, 2013, 03:17 PM

EVERYTHING in this thread is WIP so Criticism is much appreciated

Check this cat out. Best with some screeching guitar and a howling break to begin with. Very rough. C&C exceedingly welcome.

Spiders

(Not sure about chords. Maybe alternate G5 and A5 at end of lines, G5 and C5 after each '...alone' and from 'on my chest' penultimate verse alternate C5 and A5.)

Spider got eight legs
I only got one
Spider got no home
I got none
Flies on his web

When I'm alone

Hey spider
Hey spider...
Wonder how spider is
Sitting on his web
On his telephone
To his spider friends

And I'm alone

Got no telephone
Oh Spider
Hey Spider...
Now there's eight spiders
Spider called his friends

Now I'm alone

It's getting darker now
There's twenty spiders now
Still I'm alone

Hey spiders
Hey spiders...
They're coming closer now
While I'm alone
Spiders got eight legs
I only got one

Spiders on my legs
Crawling all around
Hey spiders
Hey spiders
Tickling on my knee

Crawling on my chest
Flies on my belly now
Spiders in my mouth
So I'm not alone

Thanks spiders
Thanks Spider
Hey spiders...

and a poem

The Box

Thick old box holds thick old things
Tick tock, thick old box, over and
Over again. The sun shines on
My thick old box as wood sings
Old age's song.

Dust motes dance their time away
In sunbeams, which do not care
or notice. They glitter until
Evening's breath takes day and
Deadens air.

Spent they lie huddled away
Crowding, crowning my box
they sleep. The night breathes slow and
Thinks of nothing. For words lay
Under lock

Slowly I forgot my words
And my thoughts and my old box
I did not notice dancing
Dust motes in twirling herds
Locks stole me.

**Anduril248** · February 23, 2013, 03:44 PM

here with that title and name i was expecting something completely different

. they are interesting, i like the poem about the box more than the song about spider. I have slight arachnophobia.

**Schrödinger** · February 24, 2013, 03:57 PM

Thank you Anduril

I'll probably use this just as a collection for ditties and things I think of rather than anything of a consistent theme

Not sure about this one..

The Thing About Being Human

The thing about being human
Is that it hurts
The thing about being conscious
Is that it hurts
The thing about feeling the pain
Is that it hurts
The thing about feeling the love
Is that it hurts

If it did not hurt us
What would we be?
If being a human
Was without pain
What would we be?
What would love be?

The thing about being human
Is that it hurts
And if it did not hurt
We would want it
But could not want.

Because

The thing about being human
Is that it hurts.

And one I like more...

The Bird

Regard the bird, whose days are spent squatting for heat
By the air vents, which billow warming air,
Ruffling his feathers and warming his feet,
Watching men walk in wind which batters their hair,
Earning crust at a belching dragon's lair,
The bird squats and wonders why they choose battle,
To live at the whim of men who don't care;
To live life and be treated as cattle;
When he was warm and heard fresh grain's rattle.

**Rex Anglorvm** · March 01, 2013, 02:34 PM

A nice collection. I actually prefer Spiders to the rest of the work, but it was excellent all around.

Rep+

**Schrödinger** · March 01, 2013, 03:10 PM

Thanks Rex

This one might be more in the spirit of Spiders...

Ant

Got an ant right here
Ant stares back at me
Doesn't give a ****
If we weren't here.

Don't need to exist
Ant prowls her skull
Pointless to resist

Nibbles old dog end
Fixes us beady stare
Ant shrugs not a care
Ant's got a nice lair

Just cease and desist
Ant dance on her grave
Pointless to persist

Ant sits glares at us
Us, we don't belong
Swear the ant would cuss
Say move the ******* along.

We can't co-exist
Ant inside her skull
Clenched his fists

The ant had gone now
Back inside her skull
What to do and how

Ant bit my wrist
Felt I'd been kissed

**Audacia** · March 02, 2013, 09:53 PM

"Spiders" reminded me of the McCartney song "3 Legs"..."My dog he got three legs, your dog he got none!" I really liked "The Thing About Being Human" and "The Bird," with the latter having some very good imagery.