P.o.t.D. 9/24/15: "Just streaming stuff"

Perched upon the keyboard,
Awaiting some turquoise spark
Of burning inspiration -
It hasn't come yet.

Listening to the epic classical playlist,
Sitting in a darkened dining room...
Tempted to strike out and
Generate a random web page,
In the hope of fueling dying embers
Of a fire that snuffed out months ago.

Reminded today is National Punctuation Day
And I feel like not participating
In this stanza just to be
a little archie imitator
for some mehitabel i have yet to serve

random random random
shuffle and repeat
seeking and yet avoiding
hoping to be more than a hack writer

what interests me really
perhaps that could procreate
the hundred or so poems
left before me
in this year of poems

i do like to write
when i really like my topic
i suppose everyone
enjoys sharing their opinion on some things

then again
some fear speaking out
for they know they are attracted
by taboo and illicit items
like moths to the flickering flame

would they talk about homosexuality
knowing they may be
beat black and blue
by backwards friends
who do not understand

what about bondage and submission
and our cultures strange infatuation
with control instead of love

i saw a male customer at the 7-Eleven
just the other night
get all upset and try to put
his girlfriend in what he thought was her place
sending her out of the store out to the car
just for asking me a simple question about our products
i thought he was way wrong for this
but i did not know
what my proper response should be

so... controlling jealous boyfriends (and some women, too)
strike me some element of domination and submission
i do not think it is right behavior mind you
but I do think it is prevalent these days

and i wonder
what makes these assholes attractive in the first place
honestly, what's going on biologically
that seems to be sexually selecting
mates who are so anti-socially aggressive
is there hope for some
twisted "strong arm" parenting skills?

if you're scratching your head on this,
just think on it:
"Why would domestic violence still be a large part of today's society?"

but back to fanning the coals,
hoping to stoke a fire

there's probably lots wrapped up in sex
that could feed a few poems

i imagine math and science and especially ecology
could get me going on a lot of tangents

i might have an opinion on politics
although i feel woefully unprepared

there's the whole debates
revolving around theologies and science
and possibly pop psychology and sociology too

sure, there are topics to be delved
but, like politics, i feel woefully under-read in them,
and, god forbid! I would not want to be
easy meat for the trolls!

who am i kidding?
no one's going to read these
random midnight scrawls,
next year or the year after -
for there is no content,
no fire

just coals blinking out
like the Terminator's eye
in the final scene...