Macho men are monsters, a very fickle breed
Prone to primal urges and to infantile needs
Elemental egos, a medieval mind to match
Desperate for attention and a woman’s cloying …
Snatching up a woman for a momentary fling
Insinuating succor – but providing only sting
In case of impregnation, she’s surely out of luck
The extent of his commitment is a mindless, zipless …
Fluctuating mores have welcomed to the stage
A different kind of creature in this educated age
One sensitive and caring, who dares to shed a tear
The kind of man who used to be accused of being …
Queer how women tire of a man who’s weak but kind
They weary of the workings of his fascinating mind
And seek a man with money and security anew
The poet has no status – so she bids him …
A dew clouds her perception, a foggy, foggy mist
A vacillating rhythm, a preternatural twist
Conceals the coarse equation beneath such lowly score
If you trade love for money, does that make you a …
Hoary is the wisdom “to be or not to be?”
Indeed, that is the question – to be kept or to be free?
In paltry imitation, let us cut right to the quick
It thou couldst have a poet, wouldst thou settle for a …
Prick the poet’s ego, and he’ll answer with a rhyme
His priorities are backward for this avaricious time
But he wouldn’t trade his failure for immoderate success
You might say his disposition’s better suited to a …
Dress it anyway you like it, call him any kind of name
Tho’ his bottom line be empty, still he will not play the game
It has taken him a lifetime, but he finally understands
There are many things he may be, but he’s not a ladies man
©2009 Tom Cordle
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Oh... Wait...
Never mind.
(I actually reeeeeeally enjoyed this. I've never liked the proverbial Ladies Man - they never got anywhere with me.)
In the case of some people, "hipless" in the figurative and the literal sense of the word. By the way, I bet you could do a fine job singing this.
love the clever rhyme scheme, the subject, the whole thing. just makes me smile really big.
Thanks, and nice catch on the Erica Jong allusion. By the way, with the benefit of experience, Jong later confessed that zipless seldom if ever works out that way.
Thanks, sometimes I settle for just being cute
Dave
That's the carpenter coming out in me
trilogy
Thanks
I think I was being complimented, but I'm too ignorant to know for sure -- The Elisonists?
BTW, I figured out early that Ladies Men were not worth my time. My last guy was sweet and loving and an artist at heart, and I worried that some woman would figure it out and steal him from me. Unfortunately, he decided money was more important than art. *Sigh*
I take it the woman who stole him had money
Roy
Thanks
and may craft it myself.
I'd like to see it, too -- have at it
Now I'm going to go be extra nice to my very kind husband.
Thanks, and thank you as well for getting the point and paying it forward
Dyno
Don't you know by now a poet isn't appreciated till he's gone?
LMAO the whole way through, but you're really gonna get it now! Hehehe.
Do you have a melody for this tune, hun? :-)
Rated
1. the omission of a vowel, consonant, or syllable in pronunciation.
2. (in verse) the omission of a vowel at the end of one word when the next word begins with a vowel, as th'orient.
3. an act or instance of eliding or omitting anything.
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Source: dictionary.com
That makes perfect sense to me – my place or yours?
Maria
And my i’s adore you!
Michael
With a capital “T” and that rhymes with “P” and it stands for Tom
Know melody as yet, tho’ if I compose one, I suspect it will be not be a dirge
MAWB
How about a half-witty?
Skeletnwmn
Oh, I’m quite capable of showing my ignorance – maybe it’s related to illusionist ;-)
I much prefer being the King of Nothing
Elisonist – ah, -- thanks for making me just a bit less ignorant
I see (can’t see actually) you’re leaving it to my imagination. Hard to believe what a sensation Miss Jong caused with her titillating prose in that not so long ago innocent age
Handymn
Yes, this was definitely a bit of the blarney
and thus, I persevere.
May they pile on,
especially if they are naked.
Great craftsmanship.
What trudge said 00 Trudge, what skeletnwmn said
Dyno
Life is just a road course marked by pylons
Scupper
Is that a confession, macho man?
Hoosier momma? In the future, I’ll stick my nose in anywhere I please ;-)
MaryT
Stick with him, macho men are a dime a dozen, but poets are priceless
Con
Thanks for the compliment and the definition, but I was kind of fond of the one I made up: Ellipsisist – one who neither takes the direct route or runs around in circles
Thanks for the praise and for noticing my ellipsis is showing. When I okayed the piling on, I anticipated I'd take some heat from women for this. But apparently they were content to see this simply as an attack on macho men. In my mind, I was also taking women -- a certain kind of woman, anyway -- and poets to task as well.
And that's the naked truth.
Clever.
Thanks, I don't like to talk about it, but I was once arrested for dangling my participle in public
John
Hmmmm ... The image of you being under me in a pile is quite disconcerting no matter how I try to imagine it -- and I'm trying not to!!!
Thanks for visiting, and glad you got a kick out this.
This piece (and it's responses) prove why!
I'd love to have joined that illustrious assemblage, hell, to be in such fine company, I'd have settled for being the w0rm in the bottom of the bottle. Next time I get to Michigan I think I should take a trip across the pond.
While most men go koo-koo for a nicely shaven....
Leg-up, Leg-up, give me big leg-up now
'cause I can't finish this rhyming scheme,
I've become incredibly lazy, somehow
Well Done, Tom Cordle! i LIKE it, therefore, i COPY it.