Your Poetry Dot Com - Electric Shock Treatment

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You come up with this brilliant thought
Before you get a chance to write it down
It vanishes like a shot

You try and try so hard to remember
This amazing new invention
But your mind's gone south for the winter
And has no capacity for retention

You start to sweat and feel the panic
It was a marvellous new discovery
It was going to change the way we lived
But the odds are slim for recovery

You consider the electric shock treatment
By sticking your finger in a socket
Thought better of it cause your hands were wet
And your hair would take off like a rocket

So you resign yourself and figure it's gone
Suddenly it pops back in your brain
The thing you were trying to remember so hard
Was your mother's and father's last name!

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Electric Shock Treatment
Date: Sunday, 9th September 2012 @ 08:33:22 AM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: percival86jack

I'm sure this has happened to most of you
You come up with this brilliant thought
Before you get a chance to write it down
It vanishes like a shot

You try and try so hard to remember
This amazing new invention
But your mind's gone south for the winter
And has no capacity for retention

You start to sweat and feel the panic
It was a marvellous new discovery
It was going to change the way we lived
But the odds are slim for recovery

You consider the electric shock treatment
By sticking your finger in a socket
Thought better of it cause your hands were wet
And your hair would take off like a rocket

So you resign yourself and figure it's gone
Suddenly it pops back in your brain
The thing you were trying to remember so hard
Was your mother's and father's last name!

ŠJack Ellison 2012

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