A maverick seen mentally sick
Parking his car
By the gate of a hospital
A man got into a bar,
From an eye-shot
Not far!
After a thief unfastened
The 4 bolts of a tyre,
The sale of which
Helps him make his day,
Seeing the owner
Approaching,
With the four bolts
He ran away.
Stranded, the owner
Was forced there to stay
At a loss what to do
And say!
"If you take a bolt
A tyre from the
Remaining three,
With three bolts each
All the tyres will agree
To allow the car move free!"
Advised him a man tall
Who with patients'
Pajama sat
On the hospital's wall
Observing all.
Doing so
Thankful the driver
Managed home to go!
On the morrow,
Taken by surprise
He wanted
That mentally sick
To speak.
Going to the hospital
"Tell me pal
With such intuition
How come
You join this hospital?"
"My friend,
If you deviate
From the normal
You are abnormal,
It is the likes of you,
The mentally sick,
That stranded me here
a maverick!"
'
Deviants like poets could be seen abnormal
Alem Hailu G/Kristos
Tue 27th Dec 2016 15:08
"His poems are replete with yarns and he loves to tell one" is what my instructor of literature Dr Akalu Getaneh once wrote a blurb for my book.Your remark is in the same wavelength.Thank you.
On www.allpoetry someone suggested the replacement of the second stanza by
// The thief unfastened
Four bolts of a tyre
The salesday
Got chastened
On owners sight
He ran away.//
As natives to the language I want readers take on the matter!