A Poem for our Discontent

by BryanHarvey'sMoustache on Oct 13, 2008 2:24 PM PDT

My girlfriend is in a poetry class. She had to write a poem the day after our loss to the Red Sox for class in iambic pentameter. So she wrote about the Angels. Sure, its melodramatic but it kinda heartbreaking too. I thought I would share with you all.

Our Angels, lovely Angels, lost. They lost.

Their red helmets, their white uniforms

Disgraced; rally monkey no use at all

And Vlad, he looked so miserable, yes,

As he can, the slinging slugging monster

Without a strike zone, cups of water 'tween

His hands akin to thimbles. All is lost.

The waitress, she says, "Oh, honey, oh dear."

And that displaced New England crowd insists

On screaming. Thus, we leave, door swinging shut,

Our hearts so broken, all we can do is

Attempt to clean the cigarette smell out

Our clothing and wander aimless, suff'ring.

My boy, he puts his arm, so heavy, limp,

So sad, around my pale skinny shoulders.

We walk as if we are the survivors

Of some horrendous happening beyond

Comprehension for any passerby.

This Fan-Post is authored by an independent fan and may or may not be a reflection of human evolution, divine enlightenment or nine cans into a 12-pack.

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Dude,

the fuggin’ thing doesn’t even rhyme!

by Rev Halofan on Oct 13, 2008 2:50 PM PDT 1 recs

Thats why I'm saying......

Put Kendry Morales at 1B, and move Sean Rodriguez to 3B......NOW LETS GO WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by acuda27 on Oct 13, 2008 4:25 PM PDT up 0 recs

I don't get it

poems should rhyme

You are what you type.

by rjcicc on Oct 14, 2008 12:54 AM PDT up 0 recs

Acuda?

"why do you we still have quitlin?" -VladdyG

by cupie on Oct 13, 2008 3:06 PM PDT 0 recs

NO

when I write a poem it rhymes and its writen with passion. Sorry dude no acuda poem today.

Put Kendry Morales at 1B, and move Sean Rodriguez to 3B......NOW LETS GO WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by acuda27 on Oct 13, 2008 4:27 PM PDT up 0 recs

Mine would have gone somethin like this......

It was an october night, I sat at a bar,
Hoping my Angels would erase but this scar,
This scar that has followed me year after year
Leaving me heavy hearted alone with my beer.
Thinking then to myself, okay maybe next year.

Dam you Boston players, dam you Boston fans
One day we will beat you, I know that we can.
And when that day comes, so happy I’ll be
My Angels will win it, and not just for me.

And this is just writing off the top of my head without analysing how to make it better.

Put Kendry Morales at 1B, and move Sean Rodriguez to 3B......NOW LETS GO WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by acuda27 on Oct 13, 2008 4:36 PM PDT up 0 recs

it rhymes

by yeswecan on Oct 14, 2008 11:35 PM PDT up 0 recs

As if one bad poem wasn't enough,

you had to bait Acuda into writing another???

Lamest poster of all-time.

by ineptituderunsamok on Oct 14, 2008 5:19 AM PDT up 0 recs

It's kinda beautiful

In an apocolypse kinda way.

Makes me wanna beat down the next Red Sawx fan I see.

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Specializing in maniac-ball since 2000

by halofan4life on Oct 13, 2008 3:35 PM PDT 0 recs

I just want the offseason script to read

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this
Signing of Tex!

Angels fan since '67

by red floyd on Oct 13, 2008 5:05 PM PDT 1 recs

rec'd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Francisco Rodriguez: 2006 to Present: 149 saves. 5 Panthers. As fabulous as Pride, Romero, Gregg, Budde and Dino Ebel combined.

by Stirrups on Oct 13, 2008 5:13 PM PDT 0 recs

meant as reply to red...

Francisco Rodriguez: 2006 to Present: 149 saves. 5 Panthers. As fabulous as Pride, Romero, Gregg, Budde and Dino Ebel combined.

by Stirrups on Oct 13, 2008 5:17 PM PDT up 0 recs

"Resume"

by Dorothy Parker

Razors pain you
Rivers are damp
Acids stain you
Drugs cause cramp
Guns aren’t lawful
Nooses give
Gas smells awful
You might as well live

"I've got more action than my man John Woo
And I've got mad hits like I was Rod Carew" - Shure Shot, The Beastie Boys

by Zoe Necrosis on Oct 13, 2008 9:22 PM PDT 0 recs

Mine

Heros fallen, fields drawn dark and silent.
Lost dreams. An end that comes too violent.
Too many cheers unspent from ’midst the crowd.
A future lost. A ring, now not allowed.

What good be bats of May, June, and July
if silence falls when Autumn leaves do die?
Why fill our Spring with hope, and Summer joy,
yet in October sleep, our trust destroy?

Winter beckons yet again our despair.
We march t’ward grief with heads bowed in prayer
that may next year deeds not be so wasted
when chance permits triumph to be tasted.

Temptation smiles at foolish devotees,
beckons us to mend our rent love for thee,
to forget the crimson stains of failure,
and mask them once more with newfound ardor.

We’ll restore our fandom, we both know well.
Ignore the past, all doubts we shall dispel.
Adorn the red, and restore the swagger,
when October comes, you will be Panther!

Francisco Rodriguez: 2006 to Present: 149 saves. 5 Panthers. As fabulous as Pride, Romero, Gregg, Budde and Dino Ebel combined.

by Stirrups on Oct 14, 2008 11:15 AM PDT 0 recs