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JerryPat2
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0 posted 2011-08-13 02:36 PM


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
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1 posted 2011-08-13 03:11 PM


How true, how true Jerry.  Wise words.
Lori

JerryPat2
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2 posted 2011-08-13 03:53 PM


Thanks, Lori.

~ I knew drugs weren't the answer. I just had to find out for myself. ~

suthern
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3 posted 2011-08-16 02:19 PM


my trash
in my time
was better’n today’s trash in their time

I love these lines! LOL

JerryPat2
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4 posted 2011-08-16 02:49 PM


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. ~

JL
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since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128
Texas, USA
5 posted 2011-08-20 05:39 PM


"I think maybe I’ve proven my point"

Nice close.
It's the definition of: Duh!

Great write.

JL


JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
6 posted 2011-08-20 06:25 PM


Yep, That my interpretation of the line too. Appreciate your comments, JL.

~ Man who stands on toilet is high on pot. ~

ice
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7 posted 2011-08-21 08:36 AM


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

JerryPat2
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Posts 16975
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8 posted 2011-08-21 09:11 AM


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. ~

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16
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9 posted 2011-08-23 01:51 AM


I think we have to think we're wiser since we're not stronger or faster or leaner or handsomer or prettier or...
                            Ida

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
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South Louisiana
10 posted 2011-08-23 07:28 AM


Ida, you have a definite point / Never looked at it that way

~ Man who stands on toilet is high on pot. ~

Sunshine
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11 posted 2011-08-23 08:45 PM


my trash
in my time
was better’n today’s trash in their time

~*~

This is grist
in its best!


JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
12 posted 2011-08-23 09:00 PM


Hello Sunshine, good seeing you here. Thanks for your kind words.

~ Man who stands on toilet is high on pot. ~

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