Showing posts with label BAD POETRY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BAD POETRY. Show all posts

Friday, March 18, 2011

THE DAYS OF...


I'm 2 weeks deep in what I refer to my "classes", which are actually out-patient treatment for being what a refer to as a "Problem-Human", or as the professionals consider "in-need", or common folk consider "normal". I've never been in any form of therapy before; I don't agree or disagree with it, but overall it's like a CHORE, something to do and after it's done I feel a slight relief.

From what I can tell, group therapy is less than effective in that many people are grouped together with many different needs, and as a result, the "Provider" is forced to gloss over all these fuck up's (me included) and tonight we settled on watched a movie, "The Days of Wine and Roses". It's black and white and stars one of my favorite actors, the legend...Jack Lemmon.

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream..

Pretty much sums it up for me right now; I really adhere to that particular stanza; I'm tired of being tired and chasing false dreams, done that for so long it's lead me to here, and here lacks a any satisfaction

I want REAL shit. But I can wait; been this patient might as well slowly churn this life out.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

SELF-SERVING TEENAGE POETRY

A few months ago I found a cardboard box of old writing notebooks I managed to salvage from my volatile high school years. Many of which were/are cringe inducing, and looking back from today, clearly pointed to a self-hate that emanated from being in the closet, and/or feeling very much like a lonely outsider.

Often times I would show such "work" to friends or various girls I "dated"; one such girl got me involved with a bunch of richer kids that wanted to start a punk band, with the idea I would be the lyricist and also be the lead singer. That never went anywhere as I was far too shy to project my voice in front of other people.

Anyways...here's an example of the stupid, stupid shit going on in my head 15 years ago (fucking shit...that's half my life ago!). I'll provide a transcript below...

TOMMYROT
(11.20.95)

TODAY I'M FEELING RATHER NUMB/
MUCH LIKE AN UNEMPLOYED BUM/
INCESSANTLY PACING DOWN THESE STREETS/
LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO MEET

WILL I EVER FIND THE FRIEND/
I DON'T KNOW I'M LOOKING FOR/
CAN I AGAIN TOUCH A PERSON/
LIKE I ONCE DID BEFORE/
AS THE YEARS HAVE GROWN ON ME/
I'VE DISCOVERED WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE ME/
NOT THE GREATEST OR THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD/
A HOPELESS MODERATE TRAPPED IN A FLAGRANT IMAGE OF WHAT I WANT/
AND WHAT I CAN NEVER HAVE/
SOMEONE I CAN NEVER BE/
CONTENT WITH JUST BEING A SPLIT IMAGE OF ME

TODAY I'M FEELING RATHER DUMB/
FIGHTING TO LIBERATE FROM THIS SLUM/
INCESSANTLY PACING DOWN THESE STREETS/
SYMPATHIZING FOR MY PATHETIC FEET

It could have been a Top 40 hit...NOT!