ON MEETING AN OLD SCHOOL FRIEND.

Withe old school friends
balanced on 
bar stools
or streched on bedsheets in a hero postered room,
littered with worn school books,
shared after-shaves...
amid all the debris of memory
you talk of things in the past 
done together.

Girls scored,
women lost.
The hordes of people known
now
going places
while you're still travelling around
your
own
head.

"Yeah" you agree;
"only the disattisified are normal.
So
why do we dress to be different?
Sporting mops on our chins,
exposing the scabs on our knees.

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                MOST PEOPLE THINK

that
i
am
worth
nothing.

at
least
we
agree
on
something.

                     That one goes out especially to Paul Kershaw, in relation
                     to one of his 
enteries in another conference. HEY! DON'T LET EM GET YOU DOWN! Read Albert
Camus "the Outsider" and you'll discover most people fell the same as you.

bye.

Not The Stranger?
Please, not the Stranger.
I have read the Stranger four times, all times requried by different
composition courses, once in French!
*sigh*
I liked the one about the bridge, though... The Fall?

 Hey I've read that book loads of times and it never loses its attraction for
 me
you could be forced to read worse books..Kants"Metaphysics" anyone? "The
Plague" is camus best book though and his "American Diaries " provide a good
insight to his own character and motavation.

hat do you think of the poems?

Eh, to each their own... you're right, though, there is Kant.
<brighn shivers>

I'll always be a cummings and Huxley man.

I like cummings.Ever read Bukowski, Kennely or Paul Durkan?
Do the poems <really> stink  <that> much?????

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