Tell Em All Now

-Tell Em All Now-
by
Keaton Foster



You
Fools
Are indeed
About to be
Schooled
Taught
Shown
Forced
So damn absurd
You should know
But of course
In some obscure way
You just don’t
I’ll show you
Free of charge
No price
No fee
Charitable charity
What a crock
Everyone
Most of men like me
Want to get paid
Hundred dollar bills Ya all
I am just one madman
Showing every other
Join the club
The benefits suck
Compensation
Mine as well be
Constipation
Now the prestige
That’s what matters
Becoming one of a club
Of absolutely none
Socially misplaced misfits
Wearing paper mache hats
To forest fires
One spark could be life
It could also be doom
Most know
But that does
Nor should it
Remotely stop them
Such people stand in lines
Around no one’s block
They have come
They have wished
Those answers
Desperately required
They won’t
Take it for granted
Life is too precious
So they turn
To people whom
Think life is anything
But precious
Examples are best
Teachers devoid of regret
Unafraid of meaning
A poser for every season
God so far above
Has long since been
Throwing burning bibles
Down from Heaven
You ain’t lived
Until you’ve seen
The good book
Engulfed in flames
Bounce off someone’s head
Each time I see it happen
I am quick to scream
Right in the kisser baby
God so far above would say
Wake the fuck up
If it wasn’t for the fact
That such vulgar words
Do nothing more than
Without question drive away
People on the fences
Either they need to be shoved in
Or to be told to do an about face
They simply can’t just stand there
Nor should they really want to
Tell em all now
Listen the fuck up
Hear me or else
Read every word penned
Burn them in effigy
Or call them
Quintessential reality
Damn near perfect symmetry
Obtainable brilliance for the taking
Whatever floats your wooden boat
If you are the quintessential pessimist
Whatever grounds your concrete airplane
I care nothing of what it takes
I only care that you find a way
To take the smallest of oodle
A micro chromatic parcel
To be turned sideways
And shoved right up your
Posteriors derrierus…


Tell Em All Now
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2013