Talk Is Cheap - spoken word poetry w/acoustic guitar

Poem by Joshua Hinson and guitar by Fox Cashell



Talk is cheap-

and silence is golden,

but everyone is buying high and selling low

making a stock of thought only two cents,

and you paid to listen

When a picture's worth a thousand words

and you can't piece together that gadget with pictures alone




(2x) I want to paint a picture for you,

but I'm better behind the pen than the easel so I'll speak and you can draw conclusions and we will call this an audience participation piece




and hey...If you draw a blank that's participation enough




So I think we've all heard the story...




The wise man built his house upon the stone

and the foolish man upon the sand,

and God, well God built his in the clouds which leaves me reminding him-

More isn't always better

as The Beatles were one "s" short of Beatless

but larger than his son,

and it was from his house that the winds blew and the rain fell and destroyed his beloved creation

so

I'll bend these fingers over backwards

pushing forwards

screaming four words

muted to the silence of the violence that never becomes past tense




"Eloi Eloi Lama Sabacthtani"




I live in a country where the greatest powers lay at ports powdered with sand and arts are harder than the stone we placed there when Jesus said let him without sin cast the first one.

(the day rocks were replaced with bullets)

Yet isn't it ironic we're fighting heathens heaving stones

Crucifying them in cross hairs

...because...

it's more civilized?




And we still have the gawl to call them terrorists when war is the greatest terror and we wage more war than any first world country

Unable to pay wages to our own

Inflation deflating face value of our forefathers

There will be no saved face at the end of our massacres

and when we stand in sand stuck between a rock and Ramses' Heart

wondering how it all start

because surely this could not have been what was meant.




But

talk is cheap

and silence is golden

and everyone is buying high and selling low

making a stock of thought only two cents




and you paid to listen.




~Joshua "Lakey" Hinson

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• slam
• poetry
• poem
• political
• war
• slam poetry
• spoken word
• acoustic
• guitar
• fox cashell
• joshua hinson
• lakey

[poemsjay]

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[AntiquatedPoet]

Love the words, but it'd be better if you talked slower and really felt the words. It almost sounds like you're rapping to the guitar.

[chrisbuckleyfilms]

Fantastic! You work well together

[rennerman24]

keep doing what your doing

[R3COiLxXQUiCkZz]

Josh is amazing!!!

[UnstrungDuo]

This is fantastic! I love it!!!