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Dom Mart
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since 1999-08-17
Posts 164
Florida

0 posted 2000-05-08 07:34 AM




With proper motivation,
Give or take a year or two,
Within a normal lifespan,
You can be a better you.

Learn to sublimate base cravings,
Control sordid appetites
And learn to eat your tofu
In gentlemanly bites,

Curb your tendency to ogle,
Your propensity to leer,
Your penchant for addressing girls
As "Sweetie," "honey," "dear."

You can sign up for hypnosis
To curb your gross addiction
To magazines that specialize
In cheap detective fiction.

You can practice meditation,
You can exercise each day.
You can even  hire a guru
Who will teach you how to pray.

You can write into a calendar
Commitments you must keep.
You can learn to be efficient
Hearing tapes while you're asleep.

You can be oh so much better,
If only you will try.
And while you're working on it,
You may just kiss your life goodbye.



© Copyright 2000 Dom Mart - All Rights Reserved
mete out
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since 2000-02-16
Posts 270
england
1 posted 2000-05-08 10:58 AM


***dom mart
i am speecless.
absolutely speechless.
you convey so much of the frustration that is felt in 'prole' society in this piece.
i truely and gratuitously commend you.


 I am not a preacher, I just speak the world as I see it.



Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648

2 posted 2000-05-08 12:37 PM


Creatively wonderful as usual, Dom! Even though this is a serious subject you bring such a light hearted quality to it as you do in most of your writing! I love it!

Denise

Dom Mart
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since 1999-08-17
Posts 164
Florida
3 posted 2000-05-08 01:22 PM


Dear Mete out and Denise--
Thanks for your appreciative comments. They're the mother's milk of creativity.

Best--Dom

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