One Lucky Soul: (H)ero

Following Thinking Allowed Is Aloud and the latest When The Sky Spoke Back, those two stanzas were conjured last night at around 2:30 am. Only that they were sung in my head in the style of a 1980s Run DMC rap tune — in terms of rhythm, lyricism, speed of utterance. The random inspiration naturally influenced the rhyme and metre of the poem. So now that you know, I suggest you sing along while reading.

He’s a go-getter  
From the get-go
Should have known better
Than Edgar Allan Poe
A real trend-setter *(transcender)
What a mofo
Unchained his fetters
Now he can flow
Unwrite these letters
Stack ’em in a row 
*
You may feel shattered
 But that’s your ego
It keeps getting better
Through the high and low
You count, you matter
Like stars you glow
You’re still a mad hatter
Behold and lo
The former and the latter
O’ Oh what a show.

— Skuncle O