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THOUGHT
MESS
CHAPTER
ONE
BEGINNING
BEGUN
A
HOT
MESS
WHAT SIR!?
You know...
I’ve been...
Thinking...
Pondering...
Mulling it over...
In stupid stupors
Or while completely sober
Simple things
Silly things
Serious things
Onion rings
All these things!
Figuring it out
Whatever it means
Now how can one possibly express
What all of this is?
A thought mess lobster!
There you go, I just did
For all that I know is that I know nothing
But knowing that is knowing something
And here what you see
Is only the beginning
A tease
With much more to wander in wonder
If you please
So join me, won't you?
In the weeks, months and years to come
On this endeavor to discover
Where all these ideas are coming from
I Knew it!
You know it!
I am a poet!
I make lines with rhymes sometimes.
Bullshit!
I'm full of it!
If so, where is it?
The bizarre stanza bonanza stranded in my mind...
Damn it!
I knew it!
I have to lose it!
I can't stay too shy to say what’s inside.
Alright...
I’ll do it.
I'll share it!
I'll prove it!
If you join me for poetry sometime.
What is Poetry?
Whatever it needs to be!
It can rhyme all the time
Or simply stop.
Punctuate every line!
Or neatly not
Words written without rules
For philosophers and fools
A language of praise and curses
Capturing life in phrase and verses
Perfect patterns
Broken notions
Free expressions
These are poems!
Nobody Reads Poetry Anymore!
Go ahead, ask around
A fad thousands of years in the making
Has run itself aground
Nobody reads poetry anymore!
Are you out of your mind?
Ask someone to read a poem
And they’ll tell you they haven’t the time
Too busy
Telling grams instantly
Their face buried in a book of blurbs
That never end
Snappy chats of quicker conversations
To send or not to send…
Nobody reads poetry anymore!
Unless of course you’re reading this now
In which case I stand corrected
Somebody most certainly
Read some poetry
Somehow
A Personal Ultimatum
Dear Me,
You have got to get
One of these damned ideas
You keep thinking of doing
Done
Or be damned already!
You know
The ones you keep thinking about
And dreaming about
Whenever distractions get boring
When you were a kid
You used to say “Look what I did!”
In a show and tell to yourself
That told you nothing more than
“This is fun!”
With watercolors and crayons
Action figure hand me downs
Brick by LEGO brick
You built upon whatever came to mind
But now
You’re all caught up in the possibilities
Of the what ifs and how so’s
You make impossible mental leaps for the moon
Before taking one small step
Toward one little goal
And all your ideas are damned
By your dumb dedication
To that ancient human ritual of delay
Sacrificing satisfaction
In pursuit of perfection
Come on now!
Spit it out already!
Get just one idea done dammit!
Finished!
Completed!
Out of the way!
If not dear Me,
Then you’ll miss the opportunity of a lifetime
To do before you die
The only thing worth a damn doing when you’re living
Letting your imagination spark and make fire
Sincerely,
Desperately,
Get on with it already,
Your Heart, Soul and Brain
P.S.
We’re serious
No more further ado
All of this thinking
Without doing is killing us
And if you don’t do something soon
We’re through!
So please start somewhere
Anywhere
We’re begging you!
If anything
Make a space for yourself
To create something else
For crying out loud…
Clean your room!
Writer or Not
Here I come!
To profess epiphanies
Or ideas dumb
You can run
But I can no longer hide
The mess of thoughts that dwell inside
My brain is rattling!
My soul is molting!
My shell is cracking!
My heart is bursting
Thirsting for something more!
Forlorn for so long
Imprisoned from within
Forgone no longer
I make this declaration!
Writer or not
Here I come!
To profess epiphanies
Or ideas dumb
Fail Fast!
Fail my friends!
Fail as fast as you can!
Failure my friends!
Again! Again! Again!
Make great mistakes
And tremendous blunders!
Fall on your face
And suffer soul sunders!
Only a fool fears being a fool
Expecting success without feeling the burn
Oblivious that life is one big dumb lesson
And failure is the only option if you wish to learn
Thus progress is forged
By the onset of setbacks
So embrace your follies
Have a good laugh and relax!
Fail my friends!
Fail as fast as you can!
Fail with pride my friends!
And don’t give a damn!
