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sherm
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0 posted 2001-03-18 01:25 PM


my backs been crushed
and my spine smashed to dust
i gave up i gave in
and i let them win

gathered up my values
said to hell with these
threw them out the window
with such graceful ease

i have no more pride
left it on the other side
im nothing but a fake
a mold for them to make

its amazing the way
your accomplishments dont matter
when a simple haircut
makes them all stir

so ill make everyone else happy
change my hair maybe get a tan
look like some backstreet boy
so everyone can say what a nice young man

Its better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not

© Copyright 2001 Geoff A. Anderson - All Rights Reserved
Allan Riverwood
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1 posted 2001-03-18 01:32 PM


Naw, don't. Make your hair even funkier than before, but refine your manners and dress with your shirt tucked in. Then you will get your message across.
Another good poem. Hope to see you posting more.
~Allan

If I had your eyes, I'd be blind. For I can only see out of my own. ~~Carly Van Dort


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2 posted 2001-03-18 02:46 PM


Naaaaaa don't conform to what others say about some hair. Good job in expressing yourself, keep the hair-do

I was born myself, raised myself, and will continue to be myself. The world will just have to adjust.

I'm in love with my shadow
I admire it daily

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The Backstreet Boy
3 posted 2001-03-18 03:04 PM


Trust me looking like a backstreet boy wont help ( I HATE them my friends call me Justin I think he is from one of them or OutaSync) Don't change....

-- Linc

"Once you reach your original goal it seems that the journey was your real accomplishment."

fozzyozzy
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4 posted 2001-03-18 04:17 PM


If you turn into a Backstreet Boy, I'll personally have to beat you down. I'm just kidding of course. Very good poem. I actually thought it was about a haircut when I clicked it.

"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep"
-Robert Frost

anonymousfemale
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5 posted 2001-03-19 11:17 AM


Well I am going to deliberately go against what everyone else said and say, Yes. Go and conform. Cut your hair and fit into that mould. Just kidding of course.

Conformity is for those who have no direction. You do NOT want to look like someone from the Backstreet Boys alright. Do you know what happens to people like them?!

Stick with what you have. This is where being unique comes into play. 

~AF~

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
-W. Edwards Deming

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6 posted 2001-03-24 02:22 AM


you really want to look like BSB
you are who you are, you should accept that
don't change yourself just to be accepted by others
people should like you for who you are
thanks for the read

"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this give life to thee." W.S.

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7 posted 2001-03-24 09:35 AM


Nooooooo dooonn't dooo itttttt.....My motto: If you're you, then you're cool. Sho be you! Deal? Aiight!! Peace!
~Carly

"The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake."
- Leonardo da Vinci

Elvenblood
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8 posted 2001-03-24 09:46 AM


Never change for anyone.

change for no one, respect everyone - until they give you a reason not to, and be a fearless zealot to expression.

"Some men see things as they are and say why.
I dream things that never were and say why not." ~RFK

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9 posted 2001-03-24 10:14 AM


I thought I replied to this one.. I guess not. This was a good poem, but I don't think you should change for anyone but yourself.
Good job on the poem.

--Marie

I never thought that you would ever be the one to let me down. I guess that just goes to show how wrong I always am.

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10 posted 2001-03-24 10:23 AM


I thought I replied already too! Yup, they said it. And you did a really good job on this poem!!

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle"
"Life's short. If you don't look around once in a while you might miss it."
BothUnknown

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