The Last Word

Tom Dylan


Notice of absence from Tom Dylan
Sorry if there is a delay in replying or if I'm away for short periods. Sometimes life gets in the way. As John Lennon says, life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

There’s a saying around here

I don’t know if you’ve heard

they say never p*ss off a writer,

we always have the last word.

 

Swaggering around the golf course

that’s just you to a tee,

with your fancy friends all dressed the same,

and you dare to poke fun at me?

 

You dine in the city’s finest restaurants

and sip your champagne on ice,

you’re a nasty piece of work,

would it kill you to be nice?

 

You read the morning papers

while your cleaner does your chores

and critique and slate my poems

well, let’s hear one of yours.

 

You look down your nose,

passing comment on the way I look,

this poem is me telling you

I don’t give a damn.

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  • Mutley Ravishes

    Who’s the “you,” Tom?! Or would that better be left unsaid?

    • Tom Dylan

      Haha!! That would be telling! 🙂

    • Ezekiel Olayemi

      Just passing by , much heated here 😃

      • Tom Dylan

        Oh yes, it is kicking off! 🙂

      • sorenbarrett

        I love how I was lulled into the rhyme to be hit in the face with the last line and the emphasis it gained by non rhyme. Some fun with wording as well in the play on words. Very nice Tom two thumbs up

        • Tom Dylan

          Thanks a lot, Soren. I was a little bit miffed this week and this kinda wrote itself. Thanks so much as always for your comments.

        • Doggerel Dave

          Go for it , Man. You have the skills and depth to demolish him in a word duel anytime. Wollopers and wankers come and go, but keep your instrument finely tuned and it's them that looses the plot.

          • Tom Dylan

            Thanks so much, Dave. Really appreciate the support, mate. And wollopers! Love that word!

          • Cheeky Missy

            Yes, didn't they feign "the pen is mightier than the sword" only because we could, as my late mother warned me too many years ago, slice, dice and cut down to minutest pieces with... words. And poets and poetesses don't go silent when they kick the bucket either. That's the beauty of prophets, shall we say? This pretty number is more than hardhitting. Oh! But you've tidily wrapped whomever thus addressed superbly. Beautifully rendered with excellent imagery and a delightfully haunting, striking poignancy. Thank you very much for sharing!

            • Tom Dylan

              Thanks so much for your comments, Missy. Sometimes I do think, right, then, I'll write a poem about this. 🙂 Really appreciate your comments as always. Cheers, Tom.

            • Tony36

              Great write Tom

              • Tom Dylan

                Thanks, Tony. Really appreicated.

                • Tony36

                  You're welcome Tom

                • Accidental Poet

                  That's telling them Tom. And I know what you mean by it almost wrote itself. 😉👍

                  • Tom Dylan

                    Thanks so much, AP. Yeah, people seem to think they can say just what they like, and I thought I'd write about it. And yeah a short while later I had a bit of a rant that rhymed. 🙂

                    • Accidental Poet

                      Respect, a word known only to those who deserve it. 😉👍

                    • orchidee

                      And just as bad - plagiarisers? Who pinch someone else's words and pass them off as one's own. It incurs poet's wrath.

                      • Tom Dylan

                        Yes, I've only had that happen to me once. Someone posted a story of mine as their own on another story website. Cheek! I wrote a story about a murder and the motive was that the victim had pinched the murderer's novel. 🙂

                        • orchidee

                          Someone, not on this site, actually put a photo of themselves on a poem, having pinched words from someone else!

                          • Tom Dylan

                            Shocking! I don't know why anyone would do it. My writing maybe random, but at least it's my own.

                          • Goldfinch60

                            So many do not agree with us poets Tom but if that happens to me I find that apathy is a great weapon.

                            Andy

                            • Tom Dylan

                              Thanks a lot for your comments, Andy. Really appreciated. Cheers, Tom.

                            • Neville



                              If it woz me, then I apologise .. if it woz someone else, then I know a good hit man, so just say the word .. or write it. whatever .. what ever .. Neville

                              • Tom Dylan

                                Haha, nah, not you, mate, but you know some people just think they can say what they like to people. I was grumbling about it and turned it into a poem. 🙂
                                Thanks as always for your comments, mate. Appreciated.

                              • MR.apocalypse

                                love this poem just a big fuck you to the ones who judge with no self awareness

                                • Tom Dylan

                                  Yes, that's exactly it. Just the lack of self awareness. This poem is my reply. 🙂 Thanks a lot for your comments.

                                  • MR.apocalypse

                                    no prob



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