From "HUGH'S WILES", (Part 4).
(To 'Oneluckygirl')
Jane! Put away your tissues and dispense with all those hanks.
I don't need your tearful comments and I don't want any thanks
But I really LOVE that picture of your dear, enchanting face.
Got a printout stuck up on my wall where it don't look
out of place.
Well, Ive dealt with pissed off husbands and I've answered most IM's
And I've made some brilliant comments on the postings of my friends
But I think I should remind you 'fore the project starts to fail
That we want all AP Members to commit themselves to Jail.
And the way we all should do it is to perpetrate some felony
Like painting letterboxes or defacing walls with melaney.
Please, no car-bombs, guns or any major sort of crime,
Just a few small misdemeanours that will get us all some 'time'.
And, while serving out our sentences, we'll all have time to think
And write reams and reams of po'try while we're all locked up in clink.
And in case you think that life in pokey might be rather hard
Well it's not and we could see each other daily in 'the yard'.
A new "Golden Age of Poetry" if you contemplate the sense
From our free accommodation at the taxpayers' expense.
You may say "It's just Hugh dreaming" but it
really could transpire
That us AP Members, freed from care, could set the World on fire
With such verse as "Take these Handcuffs Off";
"Yummy, Sausages For Tea";
"Daddy, Why do Leg-Irons Chafe So Much?" or
"Ma, Don't Set Me Free";
Then the Sonnets and the Ballads and the Epics start to flow
Like "Looking Outward Through The Bars" and
"Singing in Death Row".
Well, I hope you've got the message 'coz I've gone on long enough.
If you feel I'm on the wrong track, I don't really give a stuff
And I'm off to do some shoplifting and get myself a 'cop'.
When I've done my three year 'stretch' I should be
right over the top!
Hugh Wyles, January 20.2004.
Author notes
I hope all AP members will read and digest this very carefully.
Written January 19th, 2004
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Dear readers. Glad you get a laugh out of this on-going saga between ONELUCKYGIRL and me. I tried to smash a window in a police car this morning but the bloody stone broke so I'm still at large. Cheers to all. Hugh.
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Okay now, Hugh. It's your job to keep track of all our converts now. And I think Catz is on to something. We should think ahead and prepare our list of demands now. No, better yet, from jail we write a grant asking the government to supply all our "demands" as a special rehabilitation program. You know how they love to brag on all their good deeds. Heck, that way they'd probably even publish our work just to get the bragging rights. Why then of course, we'd have "work release" to travel to other prisons carrying our "message". This is lookin' better all the time. Afterall, they have prisons in the islands, don't they?
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Sounds wonderful to me... I could use a break
And while we're all in jail, might as well make the most of it.... few riots demanding more paper and pencils, or better yet computers with intertnet. And maybe some coffee cups with leak proof lids so we don't spill it all over those new keyboards as we enthusiastically pound out poem after poem.
I'm with you, Hugh... shall we start with shoplifting at Nordstroms... I could use a nice expensive new outfit for the court appearance....oh wait.. they don't allow us to keep the merchandise....might as well start with the local 7-11 store..nothing worth keeping there anyway.
Lol.... very funny write
gotta luv ya
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Hugh,
Honey i really loved this one. it is just so funny. keep writing and always share your poetryfriend -
SUch a wonderful idea! I love it! So fun and so true at the same time!
That us AP Members, freed from care, could set the World on fire' Perfect line, we could if we really wanted. A few wonderful lines or rhymes can make so much of a difference.
Mind you, I proabably read this all wrong...
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