from 'These Fair Days'




Random Thoughts While Ridin' Ole Sam

 

Regina says don’t waste your time hatin’ things.

Be that as it may

I hate that ole Wizard of Oz movie.

 

I hate those idiot farmhands.

I hate that ole witch.

I hate the flying monkeys.

 

I hate those lollipop people.

I hate the wizard.

I hate everything that’s creepy and frightenin’ 

 

and mean-spirited and more than anything I hate 

when Dorothy says to that straw man

I’ll miss you most of all.

 

Don’t she know it’s hurtful to the others who stood by her

through trial and travail?

 

 

 

 

 

 





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Written on 2019-01-16 at 06:57

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Bibek The PoetBay support member heart!
I am teaching The Wizard of Oz to my sixth graders this term, and this poem comes as a strikingly different perspective to the book. The speaker of the poem hates a lot of things for sure.
2019-01-16