Street Smarts Trilogy

The following is a poetic trilogy: one poem comprised of 3 poems. Together, they depict the full examination:

An examination of societal acceptance of lack of follow-through.

The beginning of each poem is marked by “//“ and is meant to be read, analyzed, felt as one. Order of poems:

• Street Smarts

• The 21st Century Pied Piper

• The Last of the Greats

//

Straight As

Straight laced

Were too busy

Out smarting books

In-stead of smarting up streets

This is the era of

Street smarts

Advanced Avenue Placement

Road roulette

Detriment drive

Actions are nice

But words

Critical vice

To a-flute affluent

Through thoroughfare influence

//

The 21st Century Pied Piper:

Move others to the side

And to your will

Submit subside

What are we alluring to lure?

Pied prize to pine?

Practice we preach?

Only preach, not practice?

The 21st Century Pied Piper:

Words are now vice

Words now pacify and suffice

Action is optional

Action is for

The Last of the Greats

//

You and I, my friend

We are the Last of the Greats

Turn water into wine

From ash, fire we make

We still lead with action

And promises kept

We said we’d do something

Follow through commitment met

The 21st Century Pied Piper:

A product of the times

Perhaps you and I will succumb too

And Action will become a memory

Who

Died in one last attempt

To follow through

In memorium:

Actions outweigh words

Words are air

What good is oxygen

Without Earth’s life to bear

The 21st Century Pied Piper:

I pity you

But worry to your fate

I might fall too

Inspired by a conversation at The Dead Rabbit