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Week 537 (October 1-15). Poems topic: Potion in a Vial.
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POET: Garrison KellyTITLE: Red Zone
GENRE: Rock Song
RATING: PG-13 for violence and language
VERSE 1
I’ve got a potion in a vial, but it’s not magic
It’s to keep my blindness from ending up tragic
Tear gas, mace, batons, and glass shields
“To serve and protect”, yeah, we get the spiel
What are you protecting: corporate feelings?
Did we ruin your country club shady-ass dealings?
What are you serving: a glass of chardonnay?
Is this why you shove the crowd out of the way?
PRE-CHORUS
Crimes committed, cops acquitted
Beaten protesters, happy investors
Of all the shit you arrest us for
Put one more crime in your report
CHORUS
I think I’m parked in the red zone
I think I’m parked in the red zone
Cuff my wrists right down the bone
I think I’m parked in the red zone
VERSE 2
It’s not about consistency, but owning the libs
Easy rhetoric flows like shit from your lips
You’re living the dream as you gang up like a team
On an unarmed dude as you beat him into cream
PRE-CHORUS
Crimes committed, cops acquitted
Beaten protesters, happy investors
Of all the shit you arrest us for
Put one more crime in your report
CHORUS
I think I’m parked in the red zone
I think I’m parked in the red zone
Cuff my wrists right down the bone
I think I’m parked in the red zone
BRIDGE
This is your idea of utopia
Your kids’ idea of Nickelodeon
Your voters’ idea of unbiased news
They’ve got one more issue to choose
EXTENDED CHORUS
I think I’m parked in the red zone
I think I’m parked in the red zone
Cuff my wrists right down the bone
I think I’m parked in the red zone
I’m blocking my own ambulance
As you erase your own evidence
Of slamming me on the pavement stones
For being parked in the red zone
Parked in the red zone!
A Vial of Felix FelicisBy Brett A. Starr on October 2, 2022
A cleverly concocted potion
One uses when one is stuck
Just sip a few drops of Felix Felicis
Also known as liquid luck
Footnote: I couldn't pass up an opportunity to mention something from Harry Potter.
By Joe - *Untitled I heard about this potion
Causing quite a commotion
Drink it down deep as the ocean
They said
It will bring promotion
Fix your emotion
Maybe there’s hope for you yet
I think its working,
Something churning..
Dam Just lunch again
I heard about this potion
Causing quite a commotion
Maybe this one will cause an explosion
A Junior Partner’s FateShe bought a potion in a vial.
A turbaned figure took the cash,
his cigarette now mostly ash.
The doorway had a Moorish style.
She hastened down the littered street,
past antique windows of a bar
across from which she’d parked her car,
mirage-like in the midday heat.
In afternoon she penned a note
and left it in Steve’s memo tray.
Amid the post-trial disarray,
he’d be intrigued by what she wrote.
That evening, at a restaurant,
the handsome man who met her there
soon felt that she, with scarf-tied hair,
was all that he could ever want.
Potion in a VialIntrigue and mystery
is all that is what seems to be
as one gazes into the deep
bubbling brine of contents keep
"Want a drink?" one hears one seethe
"I'd rather pass." (Too strange to me).
C. J.! I’ve wondered what had become of you.
Hi M!Been going through a lot lately with serious family stuff and ended up taking an unintentional break from here.
Well, "Potion in a vial" sure has brought out an assortment of poems! Whoever selected it should make the next pick.
Thank you, Brett! For the next one, I’m going to use “Candlelight and Cobwebs.”
C.J.! Sorry I'm late to the party, but welcome back, buddy! The place hasn't been the same without you! :)
Please post directly into the topic and not a link. Please don’t use a poem previously used in this group. Only one submission per person is allowed.
Your poem can be any length.
This week’s topic is: Potion in a Vial.
The rules are pretty loose. You could write a poem about anything that has to do with the subject/photo but it must relate to the topic somehow.
Most of all have fun!