Words From The Attic... Something To Think About

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LoL...
I wrote this in 1981 when I was 20.
I must have been having
a bad week or something
and needed to vent.


Not really a poem...
sounds like I just needed to spew.
And so I pulled out my trusty pen...
and bled my ink onto the page.


I wonder if it made me feel any better,
I can't remember.


Anyways...
I sort of like what I just read.

Something To Think About

People that defend

Well maybe

They'll learn in the end

Why they seem so tough

Up until

You call their bluff

How did they survive

For so long

Why

Are they still here

People who don't know

The meaning of life

Does it make you mad

As it does me

It took me 20 years

To find it's meaning

But now that I have

I plan on taking full advantage

Of it

My meaning is not

Can not

Be the same as yours

But when you feel it

You will know it

And I think I feel it

Fuck everybody who thinks

You're different

Or just too

Happy

I love to wear something

Out of the ordinary

I watch all the people look at me

Some laugh

But some stop

And wonder

The one's who laugh

Some are true

But some

Are not

I know it

I just do

They are hiding something

They just don't have

The fucking balls

To do it

So

They must defend that

Laugh

Why should you give a shit

What someone else

Thinks of you

If it makes you happy

Then do it

People are such assholes

I know

And you know it

Some people need Sassoon

Some need themselves

That's the people

Who are more down to earth

Most

Of the time

Why did god put us here

To impress other people

Give me a break

He wants us to be happy

But it's up to us

If you want to be plastic

That's alright with me

But don't try to change me

Or criticize me

With that shit

You have your opinion

I've got mine

I'd rather live trying to please myself

Then that guy or girl over there

Hey

You don't like me

The way I dress

The way I act

Tough shit

Go fuck yourself

I will change for no one

But me

I'm only 20

But I've made some

Stupid mistakes

I'm only glad

I had someone to turn to

And tell me

Where I was fucking up

No answers

Just made me aware of what the hell

Went down

So

Live your life

At your very own pace

And fuck the rest

'Cause life ain't a race

It's heaven or hell

And it's up to you

And that my friend

Is the only clue

Good luck

And please be happy