Likes as true as buttons

· by · in free verse, poetry. ·

We are relatively well related (as
likely-likes-on-Facebook buddies), my cousin’s
only one degree of separation, though he
moves in better circles
close to fashion almost sex-drug-rock-n’-rolling which
could have moved Madonna closer than the
sixth degree of human separations.
Anyway I saw
his Facebook update yesterday,
and this is true as glasses on a cobra, it had more
than the usual dozen likes. Maybe more like fifty-three.
He danced all dressed in meat with lady Gaga
and I called him to say hi.
Starstrucked
Awed I asked me over for a meal
to dine on veal that he had cured against her thigh.
He told me it’s a promo for McDonald that had failed,
and I payed him well in bourbon.
And this is true as buttons on my winter-coat
or else I’ll freeze to death.

Izy want’s us to write about a relative’s meeting with a famous person at toads. This makes me think of the six degrees of separation… so anything is be possible.
—
September 9, 2017

16 responses to “Likes as true as buttons”

  2. This was a fun poem to read. It had a bounce to it, and the word choice throughout was fantastic. I love how “likely-likes-on-Facebook” rolls off the tongue. A couple of other phrases that caught my attention “this is true as glasses on a cobra” and “And this is true as buttons on my winter-coat.”

  4. I love the commentary on the six degrees of separation and how social media seems to close that gap. This was fun and unexpected. Thanks for posting, Bjorn!

  8. i saw this as serious criticism of society, capitalism, fame, social media and what people regard as ‘innocent’ fun, ‘clothed’ in humour. i’m reminded why i left facebook.

  9. Glasses on a cobra. Ha. I like that turn of phrase. I dont know that i would want to be that close to madonna. You might catch something. A failed Mcdonald’s promo. Ha.

  12. This is magnificent
    Fun and light hearted
    But as petrujviljoen pointed out
    Hinting at a deeper meaning

    namaste
    JzB

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