Cashing It In

[deckardcanine]

The Style Invitational in The Washington Post has a challenge to write this kind of poem, albeit without necessarily using LOLspeak. I opted to keep it easy to read.

I’m Johnny Cash,
The Man in Black.
Just hear my songs:
I had a knack
For not just one
But many kinds.
I sang real deep;
I wrote the lines.

Comments

[makovette]

Love the multiple meanings of "I sang real deep". Anyone who's especially heard his later recordings will nod sagely at that line too.

His cover of "Hurt" is soul wrenchingly deep, even if he didn't write the lines. He "owns" that song forever in my mind as his rendition is so utterly perfect, Kind of like how Jimi Hendrix "owns" Bob Dylan's "All along the watchtower"...

CYa!
Mako

[deckardcanine]

Thanks; I hadn't even thought of multiple meanings!