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Grex Poetry Item 11: Right This Second [linked]
Entered by bookworm on Fri Jan 29 06:45:26 UTC 1999:

I wish everything would stop
Just for a second.

If I had God's remote control,
I'd hit *pause* so fast
It would make everybody--
Quiet
Just for a second.

It's not that I don't want to move forward,
I want that more than anybody.

I just want to be able to taste the now,
Before being hustled to the next dish
And the next after that.

I want to be able to appreciate the dish I taste
Right this second.

So, stop the world for me, God.
I don't want to get off.
I want to enjoy everything
I have no time to enjoy
Right this second.

        -14 January, 1999

15 responses total.

#1 of 15 by toking on Fri Jan 29 11:40:44 1999:

hmmm....I think maybe you've posted this one already.....

(still neat though)

#2 of 15 by lumen on Fri Jan 29 19:24:19 1999:

Yeah, she did and just forgot.  *sigh*

#3 of 15 by lumen on Fri Jan 29 19:24:54 1999:

p.s.  she has a short memory..I remember Dan commenting previously on 
this one.

#4 of 15 by bookworm on Fri Jan 29 23:49:49 1999:

Well, just don't look at it, then.  Geez louise.

#5 of 15 by cloud on Mon Feb 1 01:50:22 1999:

One line kinda jangles with me...
        "If I had God's remote control,
 I'd hit *pause* so fast"
        The "so fast" bit doesn't ride quite right.  I think it's because
you're sort of talking about slowing things down, or stopping, them, and yet
you want to do it fast?... Maybe it's just me.  I really like the idea behind
this one.

#6 of 15 by bookworm on Mon Feb 1 03:09:40 1999:

That's an interesting idea.

My whole intent was to make a play on the cliche "So fast it would make 
everybody's heads spin"

I am just desperate to have some time to appreciate my new marriage and 
all the changes that happened after it.

#7 of 15 by toking on Mon Feb 1 11:54:37 1999:

re 4 

but I WANNA look at it :)

#8 of 15 by bookworm on Mon Feb 1 21:20:19 1999:

<blush> Well, thank you, Joe.  Does that mean you like it?

#9 of 15 by toking on Tue Feb 2 16:33:05 1999:

yes...it seems like it could use a little more finish, but `tis godd all
the same :)

#10 of 15 by bookworm on Wed Feb 3 07:14:07 1999:

Thank you very much.

#11 of 15 by toking on Wed Feb 17 17:39:42 1999:

(linked to the new poetry conf)

#12 of 15 by ponder on Fri Nov 19 18:59:23 1999:

You know, I think this poem was linked twice.
 <shakes head in amazement>

#13 of 15 by toking on Sat Nov 20 08:49:19 1999:

I think you posted it twice in the old conf, thats why it got linked 
twice

#14 of 15 by flem on Sun Nov 21 05:12:36 1999:

Well, this is the first time I've seen it, and I like it.  I think it 
flows well, and states an interesting idea fairly clearly.

#15 of 15 by ponder on Wed Jan 12 02:00:58 2000:

I forgot it had been already posted the second time I posted it.  Still, 
it's nice to receive all the new praise on it.

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