tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67533658384805611102024-03-13T07:38:29.689-07:00Of Mike and MenOf Mike and Menhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267760456424542595noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753365838480561110.post-72800451941957548072014-01-18T18:29:00.002-08:002014-01-18T18:36:44.954-08:00It is what it is<b>It is what it is</b><br />
<br />
I’m buried<br />
in a cycle<br />
of dead-end<br />
jobs.<br />
<br />
“Apply here,<br />
call them,<br />
you’ll get an interview…<br />
a job…”<br />
<br />
whatever.<br />
<br />
<br />
I waste hours<br />
applying here<br />
and there.<br />
<br />
I do assessments<br />
for jobs<br />
I’ll never<br />
get, and<br />
don’t want.<br />
<br />
Everyone around me has<br />
found<br />
their calling.<br />
Or at least<br />
makes a living.<br />
<br />
And me?<br />
<br />
I’m buried<br />
in a cycle<br />
of dead-end<br />
jobs.<br />
<br />
It’s worse<br />
than being<br />
homeless.<br />
I humble<br />
myself to<br />
apply for<br />
stupid shit-head<br />
sales jobs, insurance jobs,<br />
bank jobs, retail jobs.<br />
Low-end-scum-<br />
of-the-Earth type<br />
jobs.<br />
<br />
Jobs I’m<br />
over-qualified for. But,<br />
the employer thinks<br />
otherwise.<br />
<br />
The pressure is on<br />
to maintain<br />
life,<br />
relationships,<br />
family.<br />
<br />
However,<br />
I think<br />
I’ll just disappoint<br />
everyone<br />
by<br />
being buried<br />
in a cycle of applications<br />
to dead-end<br />
jobs that I<br />
can’t get.<br />
<br />
<br />
I’m just so tired of hearing how<br />
easy<br />
it is to get a job here or there<br />
from people who have had<br />
EVERYTHING<br />
handed to them.<br />
<br />
I'm just so tired of hearing how<br />
I need to stoop<br />
to someone's definition<br />
of success by<br />
becoming a conformist,<br />
a hedonist,<br />
a materialist,<br />
a control-freak afraid of<br />
whatever imagined failure<br />
they think there is<br />
(we all die, don't we?)<br />
<br />
Then I think,<br />
why am I so desperate<br />
to be in<br />
servitude<br />
to such<br />
fucking idiots,<br />
who can't even see<br />
beyond the tips<br />
of their noses,<br />
anyways?Of Mike and Menhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267760456424542595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753365838480561110.post-47137406508422857452014-01-14T10:25:00.002-08:002014-01-14T10:34:30.749-08:00Bukowski Blues<br />
<br />
<b>Bukowski Blues</b><br />
<br />
<div>
People ache<br />
and groan and god<br />
do they moan<br />
about their simple lives.<br />
Simpletons,<br />
they cry<br />
over affluent losses.<br />
Chinaski said it <br />
best,<br />
Don’t bother me<br />
with your fetid melodrama.<br />
And here I am,<br />
a hypocrite.<br />
I complain<br />
of all those bitches.<br />
You’re obsessed<br />
over damned <br />
trivialities.<br />
You whine instead <br />
of forgiving.<br />
I don’t care <br />
about you<br />
nor your complaints.<br />
Give up <br />
your bull-shit <br />
writing.<br />
You try to hard<br />
to make us feel<br />
to make us think.<br />
Bukowski said it <br />
best,<br />
Don't try.<br />
And here I am,<br />
a hypocrite.<br />
I'm tired<br />
of you<br />
and your over-dramatic-<br />
spewed out shit --<br />
your thoughts <br />
in words<br />
splattered on pages<br />
in lines and meters.<br />
Shit you call poetry.<br />
Bukowski said it best:<br />
Don’t write poetry.<br />
And here I am,<br />
a hypocrite.<br />
Maybe you feel<br />
I hate people,<br />
I don't.<br />
It's just...<br />
Bukowski said it best,<br />
I seem to feel better<br />
when people aren't<br />
around.<br />
And here I am.<br />
<br /></div>
<div>
Hypocrite.</div>
Of Mike and Menhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267760456424542595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753365838480561110.post-1463580445271152652014-01-12T21:56:00.001-08:002014-01-12T21:58:33.838-08:00Poor Doggy<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There was a dog</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">dead</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">on the side</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">of the road.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">his head was busted</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">open, and</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">his tongue was hanging</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">His name was Dutch,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">or Mufasa,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">or Tulip,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">or Holland,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">or whatever, it </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">doesn't really matter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I saw him lying</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">there</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">alone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">All I wanted to do was </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">give him </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">one last hug</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">before he died.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Rewind time</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and tell him,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“It’ll be alright.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Even though it wouldn't.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It made me wonder</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">why don’t I</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">take this </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">application to people?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We’re all going to die.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But, instead,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I’m too focused on</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">myself and</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">what I can accomplish</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">before I end up</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">dead</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">on the side</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">of the road</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">head busted open</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">tongue hanging out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Or</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">however I go.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I wonder </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">if</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">when that day comes</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">people will want to</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">rewind time </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">give me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">one </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">last hug, and</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">tell me,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span>Of Mike and Menhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267760456424542595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753365838480561110.post-63216087955791408982014-01-10T11:31:00.001-08:002014-01-12T21:56:52.728-08:00Another Day Survived<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Another Day Survived</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I was walking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">up the stairs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and thought,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">there's a quick way</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to end this.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Just let myself go,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">fall back, and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">tumble</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">d</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">o</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">w</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">n</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Maybe I'd crack my head,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">maybe break my spine, preferably</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I'd die.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In the snap</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">of a second</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I could have solved</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">everything.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But, instead,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I kept my sanity, and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">walked up those stairs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">press on.</span><br />
<br />Of Mike and Menhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267760456424542595noreply@blogger.com0