Hodgepodge Collage

This is not a poem so much as a fevered rant

A strange brew a leftover stew

Made out half formed unused lines and ideas

A psychiatric catharsis a purging of the brain

So pretty much like anything else I've posted

I have turned my wife into a poetry widow

Each night as she lay sleeping

She dreamed she had me in her arms

When she awoke and was mistaken

She raised her head and she cried,

"Get to bed dummy"

But when she had read what I had written

Once again I was her sunshine her only sunshine

The computer beast lurks in the corner

Glaring at me and mocking

It was such a cute little plant

When I plucked it in the enchanted forest

I casually fed it a few harmless dead words

It wanted bloody ones ripped from my heart

Now it calls "Feed me Markie Feed me"

As soon as I wrest one from breast

It plants three more in my brain

I always start with half doubt and trepidation

Half with excitement and joy

I end up having a conversation

With a couple of my personalities

'Oh crap it's OctPoWriMo again we'll fail'

'We did a poem a day for three years in a row'

'but this year we're just too busy'

'If we do even a haiku we got something done'

'But it's so much work...'

   Leftovers:

I hear--the rain coming

I see--music notes floating in the air

I smell--a rat twitching

A bully playing nice

Wrinkling his nose like he thinks 

I smell

I don't believe in magic

Because magic doesn't believe in miracles

Or the one who performs them

Magic is a flashy exchange

Of truth for cheap imitation

God created the world out of nothing

Poof-these flowers just appeared

Jesus fed 5000 out of a handful of lunch

Tada-where do all these scarfs come from?

Then he walked on water

Shazaam-I rise up in the air(ignore the harness)

If I won some dough

I wouldn't let it change me although

I've never been rich so I dunno

If I won some dough

I'd get some lessons learn the oboe

Pay a master to teach me taekwondo

If I won some dough

I'd buy a conservative foreign car-a Peugeot

Take a week off visit friends say hello

If I won some dough

I'd go skiing at my new chateau

Cozy up to a warm fire with a cold Bordeaux

If I won some dough

I'd buy Indy's hat and a bra worn by Ms. Monroe

Maybe a tardis and watch my flux capacitor flow

If I won some dough

I'd pay HGTV for my reality show with a pro

To build a castle on my 1000 acre plateau

Scratch scratch scratch

Oh no its a no go no dough-DOH

(I drop the mic) BOOM screeeeeeeeeee