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Second string
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Second string |
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Walter Poe Senior Member
since 1999-10-13
Posts 787 |
Not quite the guy you mean Not the one you put on the team Just out of sight Im playing to the right Im your second string The words you read They werent my tread You looked at me next After the guy you text Im your second string After you met the band That was me in the stands I watched while they played And the future was laid Im your second string You kissed the boys In the summers joys You made me cry Watch my red eyes Because im your second string Always your second string I aint as good as I once was but I'm as good, once, as I ever was. - Toby Keith |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Always feeling, if I could've just gotten a break I could have made first string? Yeah, we all can't be first stringers, the trick is to be satisfied at what we are. ~*~ It's not that the man did not know how to juggle, he just didn't have the balls to do it. ~*~ |
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Bluesy Socrateaser Member Elite
since 2002-11-07
Posts 2417In The Mirror |
I was always the second string of the second fiddle, so you two guys are way ahead of me. Enjoyed reading this Walter. By now you must have a chin of steel. (there's that 'chin' topic again.) ...just bein' Bluesy |
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Jack Napes Member
since 2014-02-22
Posts 290Phaedra's Womb |
I missed this sensitive write of yours on the first pass Walter. As you know, I'm just not myself some days. An exceptionally engaging piece. You, or this character must have loved this person very much. They never leave you and yet they're never with you. Sad, melancholy and very well conceived. Touch, but don't look |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Hi Walter, I was going to comment on this wonderful poem earlier but I had something more imortant to do first.  Lori  |
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hunnie_girl
since 2006-06-18
Posts 2567Canada |
Very emotional, hold on to hope, you will be/ already are someone's first string |
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kingsangel Member
since 2009-11-04
Posts 50 |
Second string is better then a discarded joker I guess ...liked this a lot it is all just rock n roll isn't it though????  |
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Walter Poe Senior Member
since 1999-10-13
Posts 787 |
Hot funk, cool punk, even if it's old junk It's still rock and roll to me I aint as good as I once was but I'm as good, once, as I ever was. - Toby Keith |
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amk377 Member
since 2009-08-11
Posts 58South Carolina |
Beautiful sensitive writing that stirs the soul within..just achingly real & amazing!! "If you can dream it, you can achieve it" |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
Walter Poe, I have come back to read this a few times.But had no words for you. I think of people I knew in school and the first string guy may have been popular but too often he could not follow through,Or he made a few wild blunders in his life and had to learn to live them down.Too many pats on the head sometimes cause it to swell.You are fine and I am sure you were then. But sometimes the girls went for the popular one just to be in the group. Best to you, you are a winner in my book sincerely. Jo Perry |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
well said, Walter Poe...sometimes it is..what it is... I feel you~*~ |
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Redstart Senior Member
since 2014-05-16
Posts 535 |
Has a harder edge to it, and it's not so wide-ranging, but it reminds me of Janice Ian's: At Seventeen. |
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