america
america
by Klipschutz
I want all the women
all the money
all the fun
I want every rainbow
all the marbles
and a personalized introduction to God
I want a death list
transparent skin
and a cat with no fur
I want everything
I have nothing
I will negotiate
Editor @ September 21, 2007
I love the brevity and straightforwardness of this one.
What is a “death list”?
Just wondering.
Didn’t Dr. Evil (in Austen Powers) have a death list? and a hairless cat…and transparent skin?
I know there is a “Death List” that relates to Bill Clinton, also called the “Clinton Body Count”. It’s a list of people who have died (rather suspiciously) and are all connected to Clinton in one way or another.
Anyway, I liked…
“I want everything
I have nothing
I will negotiate”
Most people think like this but never want to negotiate. They just want to bitch about having nothing.
Dr. Evil, huh? That would have never ocurred to me. I thought that stanza was just jumping toward the absurd, which is a great lead in to the lucid irony of the final one. I love this poem. I want it on my tombstone.
Yeah, I thought it was absurdity too, but in a way it’s even more absurd if it really is a reference to Dr. Evil. . . or at least more corny.