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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2016-04-03 02:24 PM

we die only once
but its for such a long time
and that kind of reality makes you
hate the world
hate it yes
but still love it
with an abstract pitying kind of love
and we take when we must take
we give when we must give
I used to think thoughts like these
within my abstract and non-reality
mindset as I strolled through old
New Orleans cemeteries
and hearing somber church bells tolling
those solitary, internal moments
caused me to doubt everything
I had ever learned
absofrickinlutely*
for until that moment in time
I had received
more punishment than crime
felt like I was standing on the edge of the world
felt I had nothing going for me
that was when I began to
construct fraudulent memories out of thin air
and didn’t want to know
how the story ends
I was living on borrowed time
in a borrowed world
and saw it through borrowed eyes
and it showed me only sorrow
for whatever reason
as I walked out of those old cemeteries
I walked upon her
she of bee-stung lips and porno-queen attitude
ahhh . . .
you can choose your sin
but you can't choose your consequences
comme ci, comme ça
such a grand love dwells within my heart
I call her sha
would that I had found
this love
much earlier in my life
eh . . . but I am grateful I have it now
and will keep it in my heart
until we meet again
in a time beyond
I will know her
she will know me
my Cleopatra to her Mark Anthony

*Thanks Lori, you were the first one I'd ever seen use the word, "absofrickinlutely." That was quite a few years ago though.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

[This message has been edited by JerryPat2 (04-03-2016 05:29 PM).]

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

1 posted 2016-04-03 10:09 PM

"we die only once " Ha! Been a couple times I would have argued that point - but, so far, you're 'absofrickinlutely' correct - I really have not died yet.

Enjoyed the read, my friend.

j.

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2016-04-03 10:12 PM

I appreciate your thoughts about my poem, Jimmy.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

3 posted 2016-04-04 12:38 PM

Jerry, you have read some of my thoughts on dying.I promised I'd go first and save a space for you.I still have my rink roller skates and a jump rope.Also some board games. I will load up a duffle bag and you can take your pick. In the mean time go out and scale some flat stones or pick up a pretty girl. You still have time.
I will give a shout when I am on the way.Jo

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2016-04-04 08:22 AM

Awww Jo, you have made my day. Heh.Heh And I for sure accept your very kind offer. I think if I dig around I might find my cherished agate and other marbles, plus my G.I. Joe collection, and if you like you can borrow what you like. Thank you kind Jo.

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latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

5 posted 2016-04-05 02:30 AM

glad you are with the blue pages again please stay this time.jo

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

6 posted 2016-04-05 08:33 AM

Thank you, Jo.

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Ari Squire
Member
Posts 488
In The Phallus Lane

7 posted 2016-04-05 02:05 PM

quote:
"with an abstract pitying kind of love
and we take when we must take
we give when we must give
I used to think thoughts like these
within my abstract and non-reality
mindset"

I still do friend and probably always will. Once on the block, the streets never leave you, even in an open field.

More feelings and fewer words please

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

8 posted 2016-04-05 02:16 PM

Thank you so much, Ari. You know what you are talking about when you speak of the streets!

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ice
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since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

9 posted 2016-04-05 05:15 PM

"I used to think thoughts like these
within my abstract and non-reality
mindset as I strolled through old
New Orleans cemeteries"

I don't think your mind was abstract, or non-real when you were walking about in the graveyard...

It may have touched on a reality that is not "normal"..but everything is real that exists..and not supernatural, as I have been told by very religious people.

I like this poem, a soulful sigh, in words--just like all good poetry.

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

10 posted 2016-04-05 07:12 PM

Ice, you said . . .

quote:
I don't think your mind was abstract, or non-real when you were walking about in the graveyard.

Yes, you are probably correct, but I have lived in New Orleans, and in its shadow for many, many years. The folklore about that area of the United States is such that I have these "voodoo" and pirates and what have you that I have a non-real thoughts on my mind quite a lot. Thank you for your nice comments, I appreciate it.

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Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

11 posted 2016-04-06 09:50 AM

Hey Jerry, thoughtful writing here. Sometimes I feel like our thoughts can make us die a little bit when we get in those dark places. Or it sure seems to feel like it. I personally believe in "evil" and I think when we are at our weakest it can impact us and there are places where "evil" is more "concentrated". In other words, stay out of the graveyards on a bad day....
Glad to see you back my friend. ~L

DaysofView
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since 2014-04-01

Posts 433
Just A Slice Of The Pie

12 posted 2016-04-06 10:05 AM

"as I walked out of those old cemeteries
I walked upon her" WoW! I always thought this meant you had a powerful dislike for someone! Awesome story with some scary thoughts sometimes!

If I were more than I am, I'd see things differently instead of the same all the time.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

13 posted 2016-04-06 10:06 AM

Thank you Lori, and I know you are right about "evil." I live within a block of a huge graveyard and there are days when Zoe will NOT walk around it with me. Nope. Just will not.

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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

14 posted 2016-04-06 10:11 AM

Thank you, DV, for your thoughts, but sometimes there is beauty within the confines of the sinister appearance.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

jjote
Senior Member

since 2002-12-25

Posts 1088
Ontario, Canada

15 posted 2016-04-06 12:34 PM

"sometimes there is beauty in a sinister apppearance", not in the poem but in your comment-reply...now that's a positive mindset that I like. Anyway. despite the somber note in the poem, I feel your spirit is not captive to it, but just hovering above in a musing kind of way.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

16 posted 2016-04-06 12:47 PM

Hah! Thank you, my friend, jjote, for understanding where I was coming from, both in my poem and my comment. I so appreciate it!

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

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