She Really Knows What It’s Like By Captain Midnight Adapted from the song “What It’s Like,” composer unknown, performed by Everlast The story of one woman‘s survival. Rated EC for extremely violent, disturbing images.   (Verse 1) (Name deleted) was a nice young lady Ran a good business In her town. People stopped by and Visited whenever They felt down. She was...

Added 09 Apr 2013 | Category Songs | Votes 2 | Avg Score 5 | Views 978 | 1 Comment

The Lost Generation By Captain Midnight In the style of Gertrude Stein A prose-poem on what our generation faces as compared to the generation of the Jazz Age and beyond. You are part of a lost generation. By shuffling you round and round and round and round The powers that be have stripped you of much of your identity. By giving you standardized tests the powers that...

Added 10 Nov 2012 | Category Poetry | Votes 1 | Avg Score 5 | Views 1,007

Let Me Love You the Way You Are By Captain Midnight Based on the song “Just the Way You Are” by Billy Joel For Hotstuff and for three other women not here. I love you all. Oh … There are people Who love to judge us Based on what we’ve done So far … Mm mm mm mm mm Tabloid photogs With long lenses Watch every beach, Yacht, suite and bar … Public figures ...

Added 11 Oct 2012 | Category Poetry | Votes 4 | Avg Score 5 | Views 936 | 1 Comment

The Ballad of Nicholas Hughes Suggested by the prose pieces of Sylvia Plath and writings about Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. The name Nicholas Hughes Doesn’t ring many bells … His reputation didn’t stretch very far … Except he was the son of two poets … And one of them wrote The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath was his mother’s name, His dad was known as Ted Hughes, Both scaled...

Added 10 Oct 2012 | Category Poetry | Votes 3 | Avg Score 5 | Views 945 | 2 Comments

The Day Our Innocence Died By midnightraider61 Based on the song “American Pie” by Don McLean “The Day the Music Died” was February 3, 1959, the day Buddy Holly’s plane went down in a corn field. Don McLean wrote and recorded this song in 1973; at the time it was the longest single in popular-music history because it had so much to tell. For all the people who lived...

Added 29 Sep 2012 | Category Poetry | Votes 2 | Avg Score 5 | Views 1,136 | 1 Comment