Barnyard Banter
Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)
Red Rooster
jumped out on the floor
With his main chick
Sweet Sally Sue Cluck
Struttin and strollin’
try’n not to get plucked
Billy Bantam said…
to his homeboy Fred
If that was my chick,
she’d dye her feathers blue
Back in the day,
if you were nobody’s flunky
You demonstrate
your playful side...
It's a sophisticated,
sporty'n spunky crew…
all out in the "Dew Drop Inn
dance'n" a rollicking romp
of barnyard banter...
that will knock
your bunny rabbit socks off
get you to wiggling and giggling
doin’ what you do
hollering out/stomping the ground
sayin’ to the beat something about
"The roof is on fire,
let the “Mutha f’er Burn"
throwing your hands
up in the air
screaming and shouting
“like you just don’t care”
juke joint jaunting
funkified versions
of chicken little's
raunchiest nursery rhymes,
make you laugh yourself silly…
havin’ a really good time
rocking yourself
right out of your roost
strutting your stuff
like you've got to put out
a seven alarm fire
on your tail feathers
shaking it loose,
like a silly goose
as you put it down
into a bucket of ice water
to keep it cool just long enough
so that when they tone it down
at the end of the evening
if you're not too "fried"
to grinding ...with a nasty twitch,
swayin’ side to side
…laying it down you
and your Main chick
ride Sally
ride
C2
Copyright ©2023 CEF2
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Written on 2020
Submitted by Charles2 on September 16, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,423 |
Words | 305 |
Stanzas | 31 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1 |
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