March 19, 2011

Shooting Gallery by Alexander J. Allison

A composite of emotions;
with steady hand and criminal conviction,
feel lawlessness run deep through you,
liberating all those repressed tendencies
and sublime capacity for patience.
Let the outwardly presented self
be just thrown to the floor
as you lay off one round,
two,
three…

3 comments:

DJ Berndt said...

This is a sweet poem, dude.

I remember when I was a kid, my friends and I wrote a song called "Shooting Gallery" and the chorus was "walking through a shooting gallery, walking through a shooting gallery" over and over again.

magick mike said...

seems like a pretty sweet song

shaun said...

I just sang this poem as a song and I bet it sounded better than DJ's

on the other hand, i AM drunk........