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inkedgoddess
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since 2002-11-19
Posts 7392
Ohio

0 posted 2004-01-30 03:02 PM



If you don't see the insanity
you'll never find the pearl

i can't make it easy
only a ragdoll would
be so complacent

light me up
i'm a firecracker
shaking up your white world

why be generic when
diversity is so sublime?

i'm what your mother
told you not to go out with
(though your dad would give
a thumbs up on me)

i left my 60 credits
in a city university,
a place paul and artie
sang their way out of
cashing out on corona's
queen

i'm white trash once or twice removed

my blood is not blue, i come without
a dowry, i picked my first couch
off a sale on the sidewalk

i've wore a hard knock life, but don't play
any violins for me

i'm off the lung and onto the tongue

if you hold me back, i'll burst like
a pipe, showering you in acid
i'm not this pretty if you
truly ruffle me

im 48, feeling a bit nervous
pierced and inked, i fear
the bleach is rotting my
brain cells, still wearing
short skirts, I feign
nonchalance as i flash
the trucker driving to
the right of me

i've become a naughtygirl
but i come from love despite
it all, who but me walks in
my shoes, i try not to judge
what i don't fully understand

i'm a mother hen, and i'll hurt u
if you try to harm my kids

most days i'm a pussy cat

you'd never know this side
lives in me, shy as the
daffodil easing her way
thru spring's birth canal,

if you can
see me through this madness
and gift me with yours too

you will live in my heart, forevermore



[This message has been edited by inkedgoddess (01-30-2004 09:41 PM).]

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KristieSue
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1 posted 2004-01-30 03:25 PM


this is totally awesome...I love this.  Powerful, strong...you are a WOMAN :-)  Somehow I hear this being sung by Alanis M or Melissa E

"Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen." ~Leonardo da Vinci

BluesSerenade
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since 2001-10-23
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By the Seaside
2 posted 2004-01-30 03:40 PM


You're a firecracker?  No, really!!  
You go girlie~

Richy
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since 2003-05-03
Posts 3050

3 posted 2004-01-30 04:01 PM




Your honesty becomes you

Oh and hey, who listens to their mother anyway...

Okay... I do... now and then...

This was terrific, and so are you.





Magnus
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4 posted 2004-01-30 04:25 PM


Wow!  You could not have described a down
to earth girl any better than this...

A Pussycat, huh?  

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353
Michigan, USA
5 posted 2004-01-30 05:33 PM


Smilin Oh Inked one...
Such surrender in this sharp presentation of the inner beauty of a real woman.
Never doubted it to be true...and wear the short skirts until you cannot!
Proud of you,
TD

bklynboy
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since 2002-12-15
Posts 660
florida
6 posted 2004-01-30 09:40 PM


Oh dont beat up on yourself. Their is so much more beneath the facade.
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