The Consequence Was...
Entry by: safemouse
1st January 2016
The law of eventual realisation
and
If your inner Chihuahua was a fighter pilot, what altitude would it fly at?
(A mash up and nod to "And as she ran, day by day, she planned her next steps.")
Act and you get a reaction
Should be obvious but...
Who knew?
Sometimes when you’re a million miles off
You trudge millions more
Before you have a clue
And others you know on day one (Elise)
But trudge anyway
With a stone in your shoe
Oh Chihuahua, Oh Chihuahua
So hear my old story of peristalsis
I speak of things that metabolise
For most of us suckers, anyways
Not so much a face palm or an oh fuck
As some quiet twinge or a squeak
On an old hinge
Actions ripple in slow motion
Through the years and decades
Oh hear their cry
Ruff ruff, grrr, ruff ruff, grrrrrr
Echoes in ethereal memories
Random cameos in dreams
A wedding's aftertaste
How the choices we made
Shine far away like cold fires
Winking silently
Traces of some mythical journey
Left behind like caked dirt
On old shoes
Oh Chihuahua, Oh Chihuahua
But still we can see them in the dark
How they are compressed
Like we got them off our chest
And in the museum of self-identity (woe-o-yeah)
There were old bones in glass cases
Proudly on display
The sexiest moments
Some allowed, some taboo
Were treasures we clung onto
Oh Chihuahua, Oh Chihuahua
And always the persuasive ego fool
He say if you want the truth
Ignore the graffiti on the wall (no no no)
But sometimes the mind struggles
Even to censor the inner mouth
Something swallowed repeats itself
We cannot always make light of dark times
Re-play the hand
For there is only one
Oh Chihuahua Oh Chihuahua
Welcome to the game of consequences
Is your tail between your legs?
Dare you check the score?
Oh Chihuahua hear my prayer
May your bark be worse than your bite
Shred only junk mail, don’t get sat on
And don’t fly too close to the sun
Oh Chihuahua Oh Chihuahua
Don’t you think that it’s so?
My little warrior, dare you fly?
Oh Chihuahua, Oh Chihuahua (Repeat and fade)
and
If your inner Chihuahua was a fighter pilot, what altitude would it fly at?
(A mash up and nod to "And as she ran, day by day, she planned her next steps.")
Act and you get a reaction
Should be obvious but...
Who knew?
Sometimes when you’re a million miles off
You trudge millions more
Before you have a clue
And others you know on day one (Elise)
But trudge anyway
With a stone in your shoe
Oh Chihuahua, Oh Chihuahua
So hear my old story of peristalsis
I speak of things that metabolise
For most of us suckers, anyways
Not so much a face palm or an oh fuck
As some quiet twinge or a squeak
On an old hinge
Actions ripple in slow motion
Through the years and decades
Oh hear their cry
Ruff ruff, grrr, ruff ruff, grrrrrr
Echoes in ethereal memories
Random cameos in dreams
A wedding's aftertaste
How the choices we made
Shine far away like cold fires
Winking silently
Traces of some mythical journey
Left behind like caked dirt
On old shoes
Oh Chihuahua, Oh Chihuahua
But still we can see them in the dark
How they are compressed
Like we got them off our chest
And in the museum of self-identity (woe-o-yeah)
There were old bones in glass cases
Proudly on display
The sexiest moments
Some allowed, some taboo
Were treasures we clung onto
Oh Chihuahua, Oh Chihuahua
And always the persuasive ego fool
He say if you want the truth
Ignore the graffiti on the wall (no no no)
But sometimes the mind struggles
Even to censor the inner mouth
Something swallowed repeats itself
We cannot always make light of dark times
Re-play the hand
For there is only one
Oh Chihuahua Oh Chihuahua
Welcome to the game of consequences
Is your tail between your legs?
Dare you check the score?
Oh Chihuahua hear my prayer
May your bark be worse than your bite
Shred only junk mail, don’t get sat on
And don’t fly too close to the sun
Oh Chihuahua Oh Chihuahua
Don’t you think that it’s so?
My little warrior, dare you fly?
Oh Chihuahua, Oh Chihuahua (Repeat and fade)
Feedback: Average score: 402 (80%)
Marker comments:
Marker 1
- What I liked about this piece: Oh my WORD. Superb. Interesting, beautifully written, and very very good.
- Favourite sentence: How the choices we made
Shine far away like cold fires - Feedback: So evocative of T S Eliot. I loved it. Beautiful use of language, and a great overall thread of meaning. Awesome.
Marker 2
- What I liked about this piece: The slightly bonkers refrains and all the creative imagery.
- Favourite sentence: A wedding's aftertaste
- Feedback: This is a lot of fun, mixed in with some lovely images and some sage advice. Nicely done.
Marker 3
- What I liked about this piece: Unusual rhyme structure and the heartfelt tone of the piece.
- Favourite sentence: We cannot make light of dark times
Re play the hand
For there is only one - Feedback: Some great lines here and some great observations. There is a subtle wisdom to the piece that gets to me. It tends to scatter in different directions occasionally but over all it quite splendid!
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