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jellybeans
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0 posted 2001-02-27 11:00 AM




...tuesday is tired of dying

 this tuesday died
 just like all the tuesdays before
 a pick a fight with me friday
 starts the funeral cycle
 next comes the working really hard
 to stay away from you saturdays
 the house is clean and the pretend
 we are happy sundays
 and the monday morning
 as i get ready for work promise
 that i will leave on tuesday
 i can't take this anymore
 
 but the leaving never comes
 if i had packed my things
 i say on tuesday
 like i promised
 instead of driving to work and i
 shake my head
 i should be packing
 but forward momentum takes me
 the unfamiliar of leaving
 slowly losing ground
 coffee and good morning's
 familiar greeting wins another day
 and tuesdays starlight mournful wailings
 keep me company as
 we walk in wednesday morn
 the next two days' I told you so's
 give arguing an ear full every week
 thursday night's not enough sleep
 exhaustion
 sets the stage for friday's usual fighting
 and i am ready to promise again
 by saturday the house is all clean
 so you won't say i left it dirty
 sunday's pretend family 
 tells me that
 i
 am right
 this can't go on
 it just isn't fair
 and i know
 i have to do something
 soon
 monday is losing faith
 in tuesday
 and tuesday is tired of dying

 





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Sunshine
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1 posted 2001-02-27 11:16 AM


For some reason, this seems very appropriate for Fat Tuesday...

Well done!

jellybeans
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2 posted 2001-02-27 01:50 PM


thanks sunshine, and yep, am gonna stay as far away from fat tuesday as I can...gonna bury my head under the pillows til hump day sees fit to come around thanks
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3 posted 2001-02-27 03:38 PM


Jellybeans,
Sounds like a bag of licking (the B meaning
A severe set back or defeat) not licorice to me. But I enjoyed the read. Sy

JLR
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4 posted 2001-02-27 03:56 PM


'Monday is losing faith in Tuesday' I love this line. And the idea of the whole poem.
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5 posted 2001-02-27 05:46 PM


a great poem, very good! AP
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6 posted 2001-02-28 02:12 PM


An infinite sadness washes over me that Tuesday is still so tired... for a heart such as yours deserves joy never ending. The poem is superb, my friend.
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