Poems:

Ode to Wierd People
I'm not insane...
Now I've gone too far
Padded Walls
The Best of the Best

What to say when someone calls you "Wierd"

by Austin Hines

Year: 1999
Grade: 8^th

About: I wrote this sheet of poems in 1 weekend. I was bored and had nothing else better to do, so I wrote poems. These were inspired by all those lowlifes out there who call different people "weird". Somehow, they don't consider the possibility, that just maybe, we like being wierd. Well, I do!

Ode to Weird People
Those who are weird do not reek,
Though they are jeered when they speak
They add some variety
To boring society
For their differences make them unique.

I'm not insane… back to top
Thank you for your sentiment,
But we know that we are different.

Gifted you say? Well, maybe so,
We're blessed with the gift of losing control!

My sense of reasoning is at a low rate,
Oh dear, do you think it was something I ate?
What could become of my horrible fate?
Will I erupt in a torment of hate?
Based on my words and my actions of late,
My mental condition isn't doing so great,
How can I go on in this horrible state!
I've got to leave now; I can't possibly wait!

I said, "Let me out! I'm not really insane!
The voices! The voices, they talk in my brain!"
But they would not listen; not much did I gain,
For my efforts to reach them all were in vain.
I fear that forever I will be in pain,
For I must stay here till I'm old with a cane,
Will the time come that I see sunlight again?

Now I've gone too far… back to top
Ah-oh, this time I have gone way too far,
I got carried away and did something bizarre,
I woke up this morning with my brain in a jar.
Needless to say, It left a big scar.

Padded walls back to top
Padded walls,
Padded walls,
Padded walls down the halls,
Padded walls in the stalls,
So when anyone falls,
In the halls, or the stalls,
There are padded walls,
That bounce them like dolls
Through the halls,
While the nurse scrawls,
And calls through the halls,
Among padded walls.

The Best of the Best back to top
I'm the best of the best,
Left to test the rest.
As you may have guessed,
It's a chore I detest.
I may be a pest,
But I will not rest,
Lest I not do my best,
Till the sun sets in the west.
So come be my guest, and with zest, join the Fest
For I've progressed on my quest to the nest of the best.

What to say if someone calls you weird: back to top
1. You're even stranger.  My mommy told me not to talk to strangers.
2. You must be crazy to think I'm crazy!
3. I'm a genius in a bottle, baby!
4. If you think I'm crazy now, you haven't seen me off the sleeping pills.
5. That's your problem, deal with it.

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