Smile's Lack Of Sleep or Too Much Caffine Poetry, Part One

March 15th, 2004

Well I think I promised you guys this last night, so I will actually follow through. Here is the first Poem. Keep in mind that I wrote this about four years ago, and I am not saying that this is good, but it is what I was writing four years ago.

451

The people in the room
Sure they talk

But they don't say anything

Sound penetrates the air
I can hear it

But it has no meaning

Did you know?
Have you heard?

It's all just a front

In this realm
They're who they want to be

Not who they are

Being segregated
I don't say anything at all

But when I speak, people listen

I don't speak much
so people think what I say is special

But I'm no different

Ok. That was titled 451, if you couldn't tell. It is a reference to Ray Bradbury's book Farenheit 451. And in this one I am alluding to a convesation that Guy Montag, the protagonist, had with his neighbor girl, Clarisse, about people. In it you get her view of the way people talk and the way society is. I think this also kind of reflected the way I was think about people at the time. I remember reading that book and it making a lot of sense to me, especially that dialogue. Of course I think I pointed out that I was no better than anyone else.