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Grex Poetry Item 254: {untitled} toking
Entered by bumble on Fri Apr 13 16:29:50 UTC 2001:

Jus a bit of rambling...went to an open mic thing the other day and 
some friends wanted me to read but I didnt have my book, so I jotted 
this down real quick
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...and lately life is silence.
I know that starting with and is bad form, but I feel like I've said 
all that cam before "and" so many times and in so many ways that it 
just doesn't bear repeating. No one will listen anyway. My biggest 
failure is that when I recite the best piece I've ever written to an 
audience of greater than 1, at least 1 person will laugh at the 
word "underroos". God I wanna kick their teeth in when they do that. I 
opened my eyes and all I saw was the silence, the words don't flow 
through me so well these days, and the long faces and downward glances 
are as much mine today as I visciously accused them of belonging to the 
ignorant masses yesterday. Life twists, pulls, degrades you to become 
what you hate. I used to believe that their were exceptions to the 
rule, that maybe Gods funny joke had a couple holes. We are human, we 
thrive on ignorance, profit from the sheer idiocy of others. I make a 
living counseling people barely more perceptive tat rocks, and the more 
stupid people I talk to, the longer I talk to them, the better my 
performance review looks. God bless the white collar sweat shops of 
America, God bless them every one. It's amazing how numb you can 
go...anger and lethargy and helplessness seeping through untold 
hundreds of miles of phone line, 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, 1 
confused, bewildered, and even frightened person at a time...
...and life is silence, or perhaps I'm simply tuning it out

4 responses total.

#1 of 4 by orinoco on Sat Apr 14 16:12:06 2001:

I like the last line especially.  It turns the whole poem into "all that came
before 'and'" that you weren't going to say.

(I'm afraid to ask now, but "underroos"?  Please don't kick my teeth in.)

#2 of 4 by brighn on Sat Apr 14 23:09:37 2001:

I like it, but it shouldn't have started with "and"

#3 of 4 by bumble on Wed Apr 18 15:51:15 2001:

re 2: hehehehehhehehehhehehehhehehhehehehhehehehhe

re 1: 9.8 meters/sec/sec, the line "Small boys dream of becoming the 
next superman, running around in yogi-bear underoos with clean white 
towels tied around their necks."

#4 of 4 by orinoco on Wed Apr 18 16:01:32 2001:

Gotcha.

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