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lobster overload

7
Member

since 2000-04-26

Posts 113
Amherst, MA, USA

0 posted 2001-08-03 03:19 AM

cocaine between the pages of the New York Times
we are all geniuses in our own domain
drop the damn postcard
don't you see it's giving you your "evil"?
balance is all
give me a scale
I'll weigh your souvenirs
your newspapers
your memories
your information
do they make you happy?
you'll give it all away

Krawdad
Member Elite

since 2001-01-03

Posts 2597

1 posted 2001-08-03 10:16 PM

7,
Not sure where you were going with this, but it took me somewhere . . .

Balance?
On the one way street to hell?
Oh, you call it heaven . . .
well, then its ok
not to worry

"As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it." Wendell Berry

7
Member

since 2000-04-26

Posts 113
Amherst, MA, USA

2 posted 2001-08-04 09:45 AM

It took you to Sherman's bookstore in downtown Bar Harbor at the height of tourist season. We sell hundreds of lobster souvenirs every day, and on Sundays the New York Times crackheads come along. If they don't get their paper... well they try really hard not to cry, asking desperately where else they can get it. The really addicted ones scream at the clueless clerk for not having more control over how many papers are ordered.

I just see too much passion being put into silly material objects these days. Basically I'm saying, if that makes you happy, cool, but it doesn't really seem to make any of these people happy.

Thanks for your reply

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

3 posted 2001-08-04 01:35 PM

This is a reality check! I don't like what I see, but I definitely like your poem.

Betty Lou Hebert

rich-pa
Member

since 2000-02-07

Posts 317
New Orleans, Louisiana

4 posted 2001-08-05 09:25 PM

haha bravo, between the poem and teh explanation i really dig this, and i kinda agree with the logic, so cool, i dig it

"freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose..." -janis joplin

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