JOHNMICHAEL SIMON POETRY

I’m a very easy person

not difficult at all to please

if there’s no fish I’ll have another dish

if there’s no meat I’ll have some cheese

 

I’m a minimal maintenance person

who never demands attention

I’m a hermit crab with a home on my back

and a past that I never mention

 

I’m an independent thinker

who needs no mentor or school

I treat words like birds, ponder things absurd

I’m the exception that proves the rule

 

I’ve only one pair of trousers

and only one shirt for my back

I’m a homeless guy with a toneless cry

and a blanket I use as a sack

 

I don’t listen to the radio

and don’t give a damn for the news

neither care nor know of all the world’s woe

let the sun and the sky shape my views

 

I’m a very quiet person

hardly ever have much to say

and while others discuss their complaints and their fuss

I just listen while they yap yap away