{"id":1471,"date":"2008-11-18T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2008-11-18T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T15:33:00","slug":"we-all-know-someone-like-these-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/we-all-know-someone-like-these-people\/","title":{"rendered":"We all know someone like these people"},"content":{"rendered":"

These two poems by Rachelle Renken seem to describe people we've all met at one time or another<\/span>


Mature Paroxysm<\/span>
 <\/span>
The voice, the one that haunts<\/span>
your nightmares, the one that belongs<\/span>
to the haughty rude old man<\/span>
who thinks he can control your life,<\/span>
infest your world with his plague,<\/span>
echoes piercingly down the packed hall;<\/span>
an unknown audience to his debasement.<\/span>
Everyone stops and listens;<\/span>
his voice grows shrill, louder, contemptuous;<\/span>
a frantic endeavor to attain<\/span>
that which he wants.<\/span>
 <\/span>
To me, he is nothing more<\/span>
than a brusque reminder<\/span>
of the spoiled rotten tantrum<\/span>
ridden two year old I left at home.<\/span>
 <\/span>
I thought going to work would offer<\/span>
some peace and quiet.<\/span>
 <\/span>

~ ~ ~ ~ ~<\/span>

 <\/span>
Skim the Top<\/span>
 <\/span>

A self-made, hard working man;<\/span>
now one of the wealthy, entitled,<\/span>
depicts himself to the elite<\/span>
with his liberal left hand.<\/span>
Truth secluded by an austere masquerade;<\/span>
disposition stunted by decadence,<\/span>
morals decimated by corruption,<\/span>
ethics trampled by wants of a despot,<\/span>
he rules those beneath him<\/span>
with an autocratic tamper ridden<\/span>
right hand.<\/span>
 <\/span>
Perhaps if you were to tunnel<\/span>
the exterior prosperous guise,<\/span>
you might excavate<\/span>
the once upon a time gentleman<\/span>
constrained below the scum crusted top.<\/span>


* Rachelle Renken is a single mother of two nightmares residing in the little town of Shawanese PA, just a stones throw away from beautiful Harvey\u2019s Lake. She pretends to work full time as a secretary and enjoys creating a variety of arts and crafts.<\/span>

And here's a link to Harvey's Lake \u2013 <\/span>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harveys_Lake,_Pennsylvania<\/a>
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These two poems by Rachelle Renken seem to describe people we've all met at one time or anotherMature Paroxysm The voice, the one that hauntsyour nightmares, the one that belongsto the haughty rude old manwho thinks he can control your life,infest your world with his plague,echoes piercingly down the packed hall;an unknown audience to his debasement.Everyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}