Paycheck-Wanna-Have-It Girl

Goulet
Goulet Posts: 918
edited January 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Along the road somewhere comes a divide,
a great chasm with no bridge
or path around,
or place to rest weary feet,
and along-side the road-side there are no hearty trees
and no water-wells or uranium mines,
there's only dust and mud
and a thicket of thorn bushes,
they don't flower very much though.
So you kick off your sandals or shoes
and stand barefoot,
and then kick off your jacket
and your clothes and stand there, in the dust and mud
and thicket,
very naked,
and your arms feel heavy
and your neck feels heavy
and your head feels heavy-empty.
So you say this is your life from here on out
because you're most definitely not going back
from where you came,
there's no sense in that,
and you can probably be happy sitting in the gravelly road
staring at your hands
with a blank and innocent stare
or maybe a blank and resentful stare
or maybe a blank and horrified
and stupid stare,
but that's pretty much all you've got.
Newsweek and Cosmopolitan
and Time always told you to be afraid
and not too fat or too alone
or too poor,
or you would end up that way
and sad.
So you bought the pimple creams,
so what,
and you bought the diet pills and got addicted,
so what,
and everything that you ever put on your face
eventually melted away
and gave you pimples anyway,
so what,
you're not going anywhere now.
You are a sexless and homeless
and speechless waste,
just staring at your hands
thinking someday they will turn into a Hollywood actor
that you want be,
or a singer of songs,
a Rock 'N' Roll star,
and you could sleep on giant beds
with giant-breasted women,
and you would be triumphant and feel fine,
and your hands would thank you every night
because you stared at them so longingly
and hatefully.
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  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Thanks for reminding me to love myself today! I hope you love yourself too! :)

    (material goods make a happy woman not)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Goulet
    Goulet Posts: 918
    i'm a little tea pot
    short and stout
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Originally posted by Goulet
    i'm a little tea pot
    short and stout

    I'm listeneing for the shout.
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Goulet
    Goulet Posts: 918
    here is my handle
    here is my spout
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Originally posted by Goulet
    here is my handle
    here is my spout

    When are you going to get all steamed up?
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    How about now???? :D
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Goulet
    Goulet Posts: 918
    when I get all steamed up
    then I shout
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Originally posted by Goulet
    when I get all steamed up
    then I shout

    *puts hand to ear --- listening*
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Goulet
    Goulet Posts: 918
    just tip me over
    and pour me out
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Originally posted by Goulet
    just tip me over
    and pour me out

    I filled my cup.
    Time to drink up.

    A drink of the divine, no?

    :)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Goulet
    Goulet Posts: 918
    I’m a clever pot
    it is true
  • Goulet
    Goulet Posts: 918
    here’s an example
    of what I can do
  • Goulet
    Goulet Posts: 918
    I can change my handle
    and change my spout
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Originally posted by Goulet
    I can change my handle
    and change my spout

    But if you get tipped, do you still pour out?
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Goulet
    Goulet Posts: 918
    just tip me over
    and pour me out
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    Originally posted by Goulet
    when I get all steamed up
    then I shout

    LOL! :D
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  • Goulet
    Goulet Posts: 918
    this one's about being angry.

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