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Don't Mind Me, I'm Just Crazy
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Don't Mind Me, I'm Just Crazy |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows 
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I'm not stable, but I'm good at faking it. Should I ask if they can offer me a choice to be? I don't see the value in it though. I look around and all I see are crazy people acting sane. It's like I awake each day in a perverted nightmare, from the mind of Thomas Szasz, with the blinding understanding he was right. I mean, I could die of fright just listening to the fools who talk the news, if I start to think that they believe they're telling truths instead of lies. There are days when I have no one with whom I can carry on a conversation, rationally, and I don't mind. Don't take me wrong; this is no one's plea for pity. I've gone months like this. Sometimes, when I was young, I could go almost a year before I'd hear a single human voice conversing in a language I could understand. What used to happen then was I would start to learn their words just because I'd heard them often enough in passing, but I'm just laughing now because I am surrounded by people who supposedly speak the same tongue as me. And yet, I can't see any sense at all in what they say most of the time. It isn't just a question of a native tongue; it's more like they can speak in tongues and I forgot to keep the dictionary that translates their gibberish into human words. I realize that I am, to them, the snake, but they don't handle me; so maybe I should just go ahead and let them put me down to sleep, rather than have to keep acting like the world they fake makes sense. ©2003 by icebox |
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Roniece Dawson-Bruce Member Ascendant
since 2000-01-29
Posts 5689Sydney, Australia |
in total awe of your writing bello! bravo! |
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Kaoru
since 2003-06-07
Posts 3892where the wild flowers grow |
Yeah... |
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SharaRose Member Elite
since 2003-07-19
Posts 2501Somewhere out there~ |
Sometimes it's the people that feel so insignificant are really the ones that make a difference. This is so sad. :'(  SharaRose @-->-- Of sound, and speech let all lift the hearer! |
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garysgirl 
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
I realize that I am, to them, the snake, but they don't handle me; so maybe I should just go ahead and let them put me down to sleep, rather than have to keep acting like the world they fake makes sense Iceman, this is the way it is sometimes.  Hugs  Ethel |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
I'm not good at faking either... just when I really have to be but the rest of the time, I'm just me, lettin'em have it |
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MoniDaPoet Member
since 2003-08-14
Posts 73California, USA |
I tend to find the sane rather boring and shallow. I prefer the crazies of the world. In my family we don't keep them in the cellar, we take them out and scare naughty kids with them! Slither on, my snake. And may you bite the next conservative you meet! I have only my genius to declare! |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
I have gone years like this, and am too good at it now. Perhaps it is better to hiss once in awhile instead of wishing to be put down, I like the reaction when I do that. This was absolutely excellent, wish I had of written this. |
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Aenimal Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350the ass-end of space |
get out of my head..its not safe in there |
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Nan
Administrator
Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Insanity has been highly under-rated... Truth be known, it's quite an exceptional place to be...  |
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1slick_lady Member Ascendant
since 2000-12-22
Posts 6088standing on a shadow's lace |
...is fashionably insane (and loving it) !!! |
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Martie
Moderator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
icebox I won't mind you if you don't mind me.  |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Hugging you. I knew when I'd first read you, I'd met long lost kin. a quote from Joni Mitchell now? "I told you when I met you I was crazy-- cry for us all, Beauty-- cry for Eddie in the corner thinking he's nobody-- and Jack behind his joker and stone-cold Grace behind her fan, and me in my frightened silence thinking I don't understand... I wish I had more sense of humor, keeping the sadness at bay, throwing the lightness on these things, laughing it all the way, laughing it all the way..." Joni Mitchell-- People's Parties  Thanks, YOU. |
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Ringo
since 2003-02-20
Posts 3684Saluting with misty eyes |
HOLY SH..... uh... apologies... can't use those words... This is one of the finest works of art to have yet graced these pages... Now, I have to go back and see what I have been missing, and keep checking to see when you will grace us again. We are all equal but we’re individually different |
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NewEnglandlazurlu Member Rara Avis
since 2002-01-04
Posts 7470A Mountain Paradise |
You are pure genius and if that makes you crazy, so be it. With each of your poems I read, I am blown out of my chair. I hope one day you get published so many generations from now can marvel at your writings. Hugs of admiration, Marti |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
icey . . . when I saw the title immediately I was thinking . . . and your telling me something I already know here . . . and when I read: but I'm just laughing now because I am surrounded by people who supposedly speak the same tongue as me. And yet, I can't see any sense at all in what they say I realized that your the good kind of crazy, not the crazy crazy . . . see I laugh too because it keeps me crazy. If I were to stop laughing I would be sane and that wouldnt be a good thing for any of us. Loved this write . . . every single line xxoo |
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