From first missteps From birth defects From paint with lead From SIDS in bed From sheer neglect From fevers spread
From dares I tried From fists let fly From bully guys From countless lies From evil eyes From drugs I tried From pesticides
From best laid plans From dented cans From dirty hands From taking stands From all the scams From idle hands From eating Spam
From heavy cream From nicotine From corporate schemes From stolen dreams From more caffeine From blood I’ve streamed From should have seen From doubled teams
From what was said From seeing red From should have said From what I said From brothel beds
From all the strife From bad advice From all the vice From genocide
From couldn’t hide From won’t abide From didn’t heed From didn’t read From allergies From one more sneeze
From didn’t plead From some disease From all the greed From all the speed From all need From smoking weed From mockery
From falls from grace From being displaced From lack of space
From all the flops From all the cops From all the stops From just nose drops
From oil spews From no rescues From fossil fuel From all the booze From being confused From black and blues
From all the falls From walls too tall From all the stalls From heavy hauls
From in too deep From all the grief From lack of peace From all the creeps From lack of sleep From couldn’t breath From buckling knees
From out of time From out of mind From no more rhyme From acts of crime
From terrorist blasts From should have passed From didn’t last From being lashed From all the clash From all the tasks
From lines I crossed From getting lost From all the cost From a divorce
From hopeless tries From do or dies From booze imbibed From things let slide From loves that died From all I’ve cried
From all the tokes From stupid jokes From all the dopes From out of rope From couldn’t cope From loss of hope
From out of stride From aiming high From poked out eyes From DU I’S From couldn’t lie From a drive by
From no refrain From all the chains From aches and pains From all the stains From full of shame From all the blame From going insane
From placing last From nature’s wrath From smothering trash From all I’ve crashed
From dammed to hell From Voodoo spells From couldn’t tell From couldn’t smell
From gravity From atrophy From day to day monotony
From dodging cars From acts of God From dieing Frogs From smoking cars
From can’t abide From can’t decide
From contemplating suicide
Every morning I lie in bed, and often wonder what lies ahead.
Like a life, this is a work in progress. Thanks, John
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We’re all poets, only some of us write it down. JC 9/27/08
Anyone who has the courage to disagree, deserves all do respect. JC 4/28/08
Life is a loosing battle, so you might as well live it up. J.C. 3/29/08
Life should be like skiing, you have the most fun on the way down. J.C. 8/17/07
Take their word for it, and that’s just what you’ll get. J.C. 3/19/07
Only the truth is worth the ultimate sacrifice. J.C. 1/26/06
Compared to the far right, the far left is somewhere in the middle. J.C. 2/22/06
I’ll be the first to apologies, as long as I get one back. J.C. 3/7/06
It’s a happy man, who can laugh at himself.
If you’re looking for a new experience, don’t hire someone with a lot of it. J.C. sometime in 1990
And keep tucking in the "I'm not dead" line after every several verses. I have this vision of a good regular late-nite crowd in some little pub dragging you up to sing it for the goodnight number, and singing along. Maybe it becomes local tradition, folk process adding verses . . . Really, it gives me such a strong visual. You perched up on the three-legged stool with one foot hooked around the rung, with the guitar, with the gal who hands you the pint every few verses, through the smoke haze.
Hey guys, I think it’s pretty clear to all by now, that I don’t know what the Hell I’m doing!
Right out of the box, Aaediwen explains to me what I’ve done. Just kidding, they sound like good additions.
Hey Dogshirt, remember Depth Charges, or did I just have too many of them, and fall off that stool that Stoirmeil conjured up? And last but not least, may I give a special thanks to dundee, for giving me the best laugh this morning, or was it this afternoon?
Yeah it would take a while to go through that every morning.
But, seriously..... I really liked this. The cries of the soul. Does that make me twisted and morbid?
I don't know squat about poetry any more than I know about art. I only know what I connect with. I haven't been many of thep places in your poem... ah, heck ms goody tushoes me, I haven't been hardly any of them, but I've had friends who have been. And I've been some of them. Right now I'm at can't abide. But that's better than contemplating suicide!
If can be annoyingly editing.... From walls to tall (too) From no more rime (or rhyme?)
Want you to be the best you can be!
Ah, Johnny gota love you man. You keep up a bravado and then you write something like this.... Must have the soul of a poet. A beer drinking, good time poet, but a the soul of a poet nonetheless.... Or is beer drinking, goodtime having a prerequiste to being a poet?
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Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. - Frederick Buechner
If society prospers at the expense of the intangibles, how can it be called progress?
Elspeth, first of all thanks for the spelling corrections, I need all the help I can get. Even with spell check I can manage make a fool of myself.
You know, I once wrote on my resume. If you’re looking for a new experience, don’t hire someone with a lot of it, so much for not knowing squat about art, or poetry.
Hey Elspeth, isn’t squat, almost, a four letter word?
Sometimes the most honest view of life is seen from a barroom floor.
Elspeth, first of all thanks for the spelling corrections, I need all the help I can get. Even with spell check I can manage make a fool of myself.
You know, I once wrote on my resume. If you’re looking for a new experience, don’t hire someone with a lot of it, so much for not knowing squat about art, or poetry.
Hey Elspeth, isn’t squat, almost, a four letter word?
Sometimes the most honest view of life is seen from a barroom floor.
Talk on you later, Johnny
So much here to crack me up.
First, I am the Queen of bad spelling and words that never even appear because my mind, who knows what's supposed to be there, overrules my eyes. Or my eyes are just slackers.
I Love this line! - If you’re looking for a new experience, don’t hire someone with a lot of it, - That is great. Describes the publishing conundrum right down to a nutshell. Sneak it in with your signature sometime. I might have to put you on my website quote page. Now If I can only figure out how to udate it.
Four letter words! That is a by-phrase in my house. My husband can only use four letter words - Nice, fine, good... AAARRRGGGHHH Squat at least has some flavor to it.
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That is a great line, "If you're looking for a new experience, don't hire someone with a lot of it" It's comical, and makes perfect sense. If you want to find a new way to do something, ask someone who has nary a clue how it's done already.
Sis E: I'm not sure if beer drinking and such is a pre-requesite for being a poet, but I sometimes wonder if depression and mental problems aren't. Look at how many wonderful artists in history have had some sort of mental condition.
As for being too good... I just told my mom a minute ago.... If I was afraid to go out and get stone drunk on occasion, or occasionally venture into the darker sides of life, then how would I live life without hiding under a rock. Can you really appreciate Heaven, if you don't raise some Hell? There's a lot to be learned on both sides of the coin.
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