Beetlebung and Kettlehole--April Poems

Those Pushy Words!

"Live!"
                   meaning what, breathing
                   in and out or
                   holding on a moment,
                   without croaking?
                   don’t you see I’m trying and
                   that’s why I went for a blood test
                   early this morning?
                   maybe, you meant oxygen
                   but anyhow, I’m a mortal and live
                   or die is not up to me, or
                   are you assuming
                   the Creator is you?
                   yet, probably,
                   you mean well
                   so…

"Laugh!"

                   at what?
                   what’s the joke?
                   and must I laugh
                   non-stop or occasionally?
                   Don’t you see
                   I can’t laugh at a funeral,
                   at someone’s weeping
                   or when children die because some
                   tyrant gassed them?
                   Then, maybe I can laugh
                   at you telling me what
                   to do, without regard to
                   all things that go awry
                   so now
                   time to move forward
                   to

"Love!"
                   is blind and I have sight
                   granted, I’d like to gain,
                   additionally, insight
                   or foresight and possibly
                   more chocolate,
                   and, what if I fall
                   for love, and
                   no one picks me up?
                   Then without
                   a partner, shall I
                   love the whole world?
                   Who do you think I am!

"Live, laugh, love!"

                   your words may sell
                   like hotcakes
                   in gooey syrup
                   but who are you to order me
                   around without knowing
                   who I am?
                   You must be enthralled
                   with yourself!


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Prompt: disrupt a clichéd phrase or image