Poetry Monday :: Contrast (Blogtober 13)

Kontrast ... det kan man sikkert spinde en ende over. Men det her digt, nærmere en slags taledigt eller rap, opstod nærmest af sig selv i mit hoved i går morges.

For flere år siden skrev jeg en "Omvendt bucket list" over hvad jeg allerede havde gjort, og en af dem var: "Played guitar in a country band". Vi sang også moderne protestsange og ballader. Den tid kom tilbag til mig, da dette vers opstod i går, det kunne vi godt have sunget ved en eller anden demonstration dengang.
     Verset har ikke vildt meget med kontrast at gøre - hun måske mellem hvordan vi synes, verden burde være og hvordan den er nu?

Lad os prise, lad os takke vores færdselsbetjent,
vi kan faktisk heller ikke være andet bekendt.
Han fik smadret sit knæ
og bankede ind i et træ,
men han stopped' idioten - en i forvejen kendt

Og nu ligger han og lider på et hospital,
mens "den  kendte" - idioten, som er bindegal
smadrer sin detention
og koster en million.
Hvordan pokker går det til at den her slutning er normal?

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Contrast ... you could probably spin a   tale here. But this poem, more like a kind of rhythmically spoken lines or rap, just popped into my head yesterday morning.

A few years ago, I wrote a ‘Reverse Bucket List’ of things I'd already done, and one of them was: ‘Played guitar in a country band’. We also sang modern protest songs and ballads. That time came back to me with this verse yesterday morning; we could have recited it at some demonstration back then.
The verse doesn't have much to do with contrast – perhaps between how we think the world should be and how it is now?

Let us give to our traffic cop the praise that we own
Yes you have to do it - and if not you're made of stone
He smashed up his knee
and crashed into a tree,
but he stopped the drunken driver - who was previously known.

And now he's lying in an ICU,
while ‘the known one’ - the DUI - completely blew
smashes up his humble cell
costs a million and a bell.
How on earth did we end up with an ending this askew?


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taken from the 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts group.

Oct 20 Side profile of a person
Oct 27 Journey between stars
Nov 3 Funeral
Nov 10 Dismembered
Nov 17 In a cave
Nov 24 Pot of tea for two