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Another repost for Larry? Got it?
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Another repost for Larry? Got it? |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) 
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The Time Machine When I was very young A scruff and scraggly boy My own imagination - My most enjoy'ble toy To hide in the closet's dark By cramming myself inside My time machine would take me To adventures far and wide But now that I was older And a scientist I'd been I'd searched out for a method To relive those times again I built a brand new closet Titanium for its walls And then a rocket booster In case, through time, it stalled I punched up ancient Rome And held on for the trip I sped through cosmic light With dribble on my lip I opened up the door A trucker honked at me “Beware the Ides of March” I heard his solemn plea. I shut the closet door I’d made inside my lab Poor ole Julius Caesar’d Get shot instead of stabbed I turned the knob quite madly The Wild West is where it stopped So I opened up the doorway Into a mall with many shops A cowboy with a temper I had hoped to not incur Wearing his boots and Stetson Silver dollars were his spurs Said to me “To that lady… You did not tip your hat” The mall had “Smoking" signs On one he went and spat! "You need to learn a lesson And if I don’t then who’ll Teach you a little couth At noon we’ll have a duel" I could’ve just right then Turned tail and off I’d run But all the shops had liquor- ish in jars. I wanted some By the new Sanger Harris And to the left of Dillards At high noon on the dial I went to meet the killer He was propped up by the games Pack Man and Centipede With such a nasty sneer Sev’ral quarters he would feed I beat him at Dig Dug Defender was a breeze By time the duel was o'er I had him on his knees “Only one could play like you He was just a little child Tamed us all at Galaga In the time the West was wild!” I left him to his sobs Back in my time machine The world was real messed up From only what I’d seen I wondered what would happen If I went back to my youth Of all the days remembered Would they still turn out as truth? I went to where I'd lived With a mist upon my eyes Feeling like a kid again I became a little shy I rang the bell just once And waited for my mom But in the drive, no car Was everybody gone? The lights were all out so I tried to bring back when… A sudden flash of mem’ry Told how I would get in My bedroom window opened And my body hit the floor As I swung myself inside The throbbing I ignored I went out to the hall And saw the closet bare If all the world's gone mad I knew I'd find it there I heard a quiet whisper And the words I used to say Then a flash of cosmic light From a kid who loved to play I ran to my machine The boy was gone somehow My mind was very blank From then, up till just now Everywhere I travelled A boy had caused the trouble Sanger Harris changed its name He bought stock and then it doubled A man on the moon was sent By the German American States In Nineteen Sixty-Nine B.C. at any rate The wheel was first discovered The airplane’s maiden flight Both were given credit Inventions in one night I finally caught the boy In Revolutionary time When Ike was on the quarter And ole Abe was on the dime When I’d drug the boy to light So my eyes could better see Well then two and two makes six, Cuz that boy, you see, was me! He said he’d just imagined Himself as the older man In the bloody Revolution Where both of us would stand I did not disappear Even though I was his thoughts For I was what he’d come to be In time and lessons taught The boy got in his closet And pulled the phantom knob Heading for the future To claim my present job Time machines are wild, in fact, No limits are ever set When boy’s imaginations Can boost the rocket jets. |
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the_loner_23 Member Ascendant
since 2002-06-08
Posts 5479Jacksonville, Florida, USA |
Enjoyed! Cold hands means a warm heart |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
For Larry! |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
Oh yuh! |
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