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Older and Wiser?
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Older and Wiser? |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana 
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the years like a hanging icicle falls from the roof’s eve to stab you into tomorrow and tomorrow never stands still but becomes the today of all of your tomorrows as the years begin to age us we begin to deem we have become wise merely because we have outlived most of our graduating class the younger generation don’t know how to pour piss out of a boot our attitude ah, the lies we tell ourselves are progressively worse the older we get my generation heralded rock ‘n roll into the world an accomplishment maybe our parents thought it dangerous to scream and rant to the devil’s music as I listen to the teen idols of today I am appalled appalled, I’m saying until I stop shake my head and grin remembering Black Sabbath screaming at high volume in my sixties’ style pad in the seventies Ozzy went on to become a caricature of what he used to be Alice Cooper had a place full of nightmares so here I am trying to be above it all trying to dig the new crop of shock bands trying to not be grandfatherly but hip, don’t cha know, dude, dudette ain’t working my trash in my time was better’n today’s trash in their time psst! remember me saying up there somewhere about the lies we tell ourselves are progressively worse the older we get I think maybe I’ve proven my point ~ I knew drugs weren't the answer. I just had to find out for myself. ~ |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
How true, how true Jerry. Wise words. Lori |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Thanks, Lori. ~ I knew drugs weren't the answer. I just had to find out for myself. ~ |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
my trash in my time was better’n today’s trash in their time I love these lines! LOL |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Hah! Thank you, suthern, for the laugh and the read. ~ I knew drugs weren't the answer. I just had to find out for myself. ~ |
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JL Member Ascendant
since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128Texas, USA |
"I think maybe I’ve proven my point" Nice close. It's the definition of: Duh! Great write. JL  |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Yep, That my interpretation of the line too. Appreciate your comments, JL. ~ Man who stands on toilet is high on pot. ~ |
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ice Member Elite
since 2003-05-17
Posts 3404Pennsylvania |
Everything is true here in this poem, JP I think the first stanza could stand alone as a complete poem...though the rest explains what that stanza means.. Good work, and thought provoking |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Appreciate your comments, Ice. Funny that you said the first stanza could stand alone. After I wrote it I almost stopped then and there. But in my mind I had other things to say, so . . . I kept writing. ~ Man who stands on toilet is high on pot. ~ |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
I think we have to think we're wiser since we're not stronger or faster or leaner or handsomer or prettier or... Ida |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Ida, you have a definite point / Never looked at it that way ~ Man who stands on toilet is high on pot. ~ |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
my trash in my time was better’n today’s trash in their time ~*~ This is grist in its best! |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Hello Sunshine, good seeing you here. Thanks for your kind words. ~ Man who stands on toilet is high on pot. ~ |
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