"We've Been Betrayed," "Reels," and "That's The Way (I Like It)"

We've Been Betrayed

  I 
was 
  slipping  
     i
n other 
    people's 
  blood
 
    but
     if 
     you 
        truly 
    cared 
      about 
       owning 
            the 
           libs 
            you'd 
        have 
            come 
           to
          school
              in 
        skidless 
         shoes

 


 

Reels

Facebook's
algorithm
knows
you're going
to stay hopelessly
married to
your wife, so
here's a video
of a 20 year old
in super duper
yoga pants since
hey, us men gotta 
stick together

 


 

That's the Way (I Like It)

So I posted a video of "Get Down Tonight" on a message board along with Guess who's coming to my county fair next weekend?  Hell yeah. and someone responded with KC is a Republican so I watched the video again which came from Don Kirshner's Rock Concert where KC is too busy strutting and sweating to sing or play but with a band like that behind him who cares which led me to wonder what would have happened if Gerald Ford and Bob Dole and Ronald Reagan came out in sparkly polyester and started two-stepping in time with the trumpet players and perhaps then the Republican Party would have wound up right where it belonged:  playing next to the horse stables on a Friday night where I'd applaud and go Woo! and when it was over I'd pick up a lemon-lime sno-cone on my way out the fairground gates and back into Real America for another year.

 

 

Kris Bluth lives in Eugene, Oregon with his wife and daughter.  He's a regular contributor to Groundwaters and among the other places his work has appeared have been Clean SheetsBay LaurelDenali, and Doves and Serpents.  All he does is try to take what he finds interesting and get it down the best he can, and that's as pretentious as his Why I Write Poetry blurb is going to get. Kris recommends donating to the White Bird Clinic.

 

Edited for Unlikely by Jonathan Penton, Editor-in-Chief
Last revised on Saturday, October 1, 2022 - 14:17