It's Just A Little Mood Swing Darlin'

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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2005-01-24 07:58 PM

The news told me today
we’re just too hot for our own good
and it has to be my fault,
because I didn’t vote for the man
in the make believe farmer’s coat
who lied
about his past in would or should or could,
and I choose not to freeze
so I’m damned for burning firewood,
and countries where the toilets don’t flush
and the lights don’t work
and some dictator jerk steals all the money
and takes the prettiest girls,
should be given time to catch up with us
in eco-depravity
and planetary degradation
while they make our batteries
and computer chips,
as if the Ross Shelf would care
when it breaks loose down there
and the whole world’s tilt flips
and finally makes us understand
the Earth’s no guarantee at all.

It won’t matter if we breathe fetid air,
if all the guilt should be mine
then third world should mean third in line
when Armageddon rolls around,
so they should all give us a hand
as we all go on ahead of them
at being dead.

I just can’t stand
the sound of tree huggers
whining that we’re all gonna die,
it puts a fire in my eye,
then I want to tell the damned fools
of course we’re all gonna die
no one gets out alive,
who told them they’d get to have more of life?
probably Al Gore
and his silly bleached blond wife;
I can’t remember
did he invent the internet
or was it just the trifectca bet?

I’m less a fan of hot than cold
so if the world
is going to Hell in a hand basket
I might have wished we had been told
we all were going to Helena, Montana,
at least there I know the game trails
and if all else fails
how to dig a basement deep,
but then again
how can anyone really know
where we’re going
when we’re really nowhere at all?

I’ve been told my poetry blows
and I should shut up and go away
when I think
I might have something to say
to clean out my head,
or maybe that was just my nose,
maybe that’s just the way it goes
I’ve stayed here 30 years now
and I don’t know why;
it isn’t like there’s no place else to go
I even have a home in Mexico.

©2005 by icebox

[This message has been edited by icebox (01-24-2005 10:46 PM).]

wandering glider
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since 2001-04-04

Posts 501
aloft

1 posted 2005-01-24 08:09 PM

The longer I fly
the more obvious it becomes
there is nowhere to land
'till death, when it comes

glider

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

2 posted 2005-01-24 08:30 PM

Powerfully penned....and so to the point.

MGROVES

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since 2004-02-01

Posts 3802
california

3 posted 2005-01-24 08:56 PM

life is precious meant for living
or one could be like the dead, unforgiving
for life taken from ones pride or greed
nothing is for sure all is unknown but love gives life and keeps life alive
well sir, i find it an honor to have the pleasure to read your wise words

you have a very wise soul with a thirst for knowledge, which i feel it already has

icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

4 posted 2005-01-25 02:48 AM

Thank you all for your time and for your thoughts. You are much appreciated!

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

5 posted 2005-01-25 05:34 AM

and you better stay 30 more

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

6 posted 2005-01-25 10:59 AM

Dunc and I have discussed just this...

of course we always knew...

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

7 posted 2005-01-25 11:04 AM

I’ve been told my poetry blows
and I should shut up and go away
when I think
I might have something to say
to clean out my head,
or maybe that was just my nose,
maybe that’s just the way it goes
I’ve stayed here 30 years now
and I don’t know why;
it isn’t like there’s no place else to go
I even have a home in Mexico.

darlin...your poetry is music to the ears and heart....you just keep penning....always and forever....

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

8 posted 2005-01-25 11:37 AM

how can anyone really know
where we’re going
when we’re really nowhere at all?

says it all...

enjoying reading your take on life

M

DavePage
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since 2003-12-21

Posts 2917

9 posted 2005-01-25 11:56 AM

I’ve been told my poetry blows
and I should shut up and go away
when I think

but would they have the guts to say that to your face.

Keep blowing your poetry, it is worth more than a lot I read.

Dave

JL
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since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA