Ray Wylie Hubbard: "You've got to have some scars if you wanna be a
poet." Song: Bad Trick.
I count my wounds.
Paul Simon: "I have my books And my poetry to protect me."
I Am a Rock.
I am reminded that writing is a solitary endeavor.
In this life, solitary is a destination.
And finally, Springsteen, in the 7th verse of Jungleland writes, "And
the poets down here don't write nothing at all, they just stand back and let
it all be."
'Was a time when the world made allowances for youthful indiscretions.
"Drinking warm beer" never got anyone locked up.
Nowadays social workers, want everyone sentenced to slow death.
Counseling, Rehab, Therapy.
Anything and everything is a condition; custom-made emotional turmoil.
Everyone wants to be the "Maximum Lawman."
Author's Note:
For this poem I quoted from Bruce Springsteen's Jungleland.
Paul Simon's, I Am a Rock.
Ray Wylie Hubbard's, Bad Trick.
I'm a fan of all three.
My soundtrack.
I'm a poet and a card-carrying member of the MurderVerse
My books and poetry will not protect
I'm beyond a Bad Trick
Writing keeps me sane
On the page, my life has a purpose
Consequences keep me alert.
The tooth of a fifteen-year-old girl rolls around my mouth.
A reminder of how cold-blooded I really am
To you all reading my words,
I, Like, Terry Stubbins, am just another rat, "over the Jersey state line."
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David Parham
Writer, Filmmaker, Digital artist.
The ever Changing Complexities of Life, Fear, Mysteries and Capturing that which may not be there Tomorrow.
Complex, Change, Fear, Mystery, Tomorrow & Capture. Six reasons I write.
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