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Hair Band Himbo


Fans who come to see you had your poster on their walls in 1985

You are so much older but they still think you are so fine

Fake hair extensions or a badly placed hair weave

You smile that bright smile with your newly wightened false teeth

You're the Hair Band Himbo

You are an arrogant self-absorbed juke box hero

You're the Hair Band Himbo

Your looks were a ten but your talent was a about a zero

Now looking like a lizard lounge act, you take to the stage

Singing songs from the past when in the eighties, they were all the rage

Spitting on the audience after drinking from a bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey

People in the front row wonder, is this what we paid all of this money to see?

You're the Hair Band Himbo

You are an arrogant self-absorbed juke box hero

You're the Hair Band Himbo

Your looks were a ten but your talent was about a zero

You now have to wear sunglasses because you have developed a senstivity to light

Your guitar player is drowning you out and you and him get into a fight

It's hard to be a cohesive until, when old grudges start to resurface again

You realize that you hate each other even more now than you did then

You're the Hair Band Himbo

You are an arrogant, self-absorbed juke box hero

You're the Hair Band Himbo

Your looks were at ten but your talent was about a zero

Many of your peers are dying off as you continue the show

Even though your peak years were more than a few decades ago

But poeple still come to your show because it's a legend that they want to see

Even though your only motivating factor at this point is money and greed

You're the Hair Band Himbo

You are an arrogant, self absrobed juke box hero

You're the Hair Band Himbo

Your looks were a ten but your talent was about a zero 

From Too Much Unwanted Noise

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Paul Ryerson

I am a writer who writes poetry & plays. I have also written a short film & I created an animated series on You Tube. Included on Power Poetry are seventy poems from my five poetry collections, Rhymes With A Reason, Too Much Unwanted Noise, Broken and Burned Bridges, Dying On The Inside and Fool’s Gold and Fool’s Paradise

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PersonalThemeAbstract

Specific critique of aging hair band performer; deeply personal/autobiographical target

SparseMeasureDense

Multiple ideas per 10 lines: appearance, talent gap, behavior, bandmate conflict, mortality

DarkSentimentBright

Heavily negative; contempt, mockery, disappointment throughout

StillEnergyExplosive

Sharp, accusatory tone; cutting observations; spitting, fighting imagery

MicroLengthEpic

Approximately 45 lines; within 31-60 range

PlainFigurativeOrnamented

Some metaphor (jukebox hero), personification (peak years), but mostly declarative accusations

LyricVoiceDramatic

Dramatic critique of persona; second-person address creates dramatic distance from lyric

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