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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
​
ON
WRITER'S
ROAD
Stop to think for a moment
When stuck in mental traffic
What route have you not thought out
To get around the bind?
You may consider many possibilities
And create many more fantasies
But how many have you tried?
Sometimes when nothing else is moving
The only choice worth choosing
Is to leave the vehicle behind
Step off the pre-planned route
Of the predestined destination
You had already mapped out
In your mind
Through sticks and stones
Make a path all your own
And there you will discover
How to
CLIMB!
CLIMB!
CLIMB!
And at last
When you break through the thicket
Muddy
Bloody and
Bruised
Exhausted from so much struggle
Through steps in shits of all kinds
You’ll feel a tremendous warmth
There for a moment
From a peek of light
Through the clearing of the mind
​
And yet here,
There is a possibility
That you may look back
Only to see
The road you once traveled
Full of traffic jams and jellies
Is now moving again without obstruction
As if nothing had ever happened
Flowing perfectly, freely
You could have never predicted it
That waiting it out
Would have relieved your predicament
In the pileup of one track thinking
Keeping everything stagnant in your mind
Sure,
This may be the outcome
And you may feel dumb
After having gone and done
A trek beyond the norm
Outside the box
Of ordinary thoughts
Across treacherous embarrassments
Tangled up in thorns of ignorance
Scarred by wild nips and tucks of fear
Lost in the woods of Wondering What Ifs
Yet somehow you persevered!
And had you not ventured a guess
To experience the perils of perseverance
Up and over whatever stopped you before
Then you would have never found
What you have now
One hell of a story to tell
In search of whatever it was
You had begun the journey for
​
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!
