Why I Didn't Kill Myself This Morning

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Why I Didn't Kill Myself This Morning

 

So many people have passed through me

Like fruit that rotted on the vine

Those were my thoughts this morning

Over coffee and saxophones

And a roach a friend had left behind

 

A lighter shade of aparthied

Has attached itself to me

The invisible fence of fake freedom

Around my doglife yard

No longer shocks me

 

This is the autonomy left me

To simply say I don't believe you

And for now that is enough to keep me

From killing myself this morning

Peddle your papers elsewhere

 

 

 

 

[2i3zz31iz74ww]

The "YOU" in this poem being systems and personalities that seem designed to keep me contained in the box "THEY" chose for me.

[2i3zz31iz74ww]

Thanks Raibeart,

      I really don't want to spend my life energy on an Us versus Them thing but if I have to fight for my right to be myself then I will. At present remaining myself is the best way I Know how to fight this fight. thanks again.  marK

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Ghods this just makes me wanna have a smoke!

wow!!!

Thank you

 

[2i3zz31iz74ww]

Thanks Turukai,

      If it was good enough for Bob Marley it's good enough for us. Later amigo and smoke one for me.  marK

[2914ywxbv5p54]

Oh, Mark, there are so many lines in this exquisite piece which shoot right into my heart and have me nodding emphatically. I've a deep seated tendency to rail against ambivalence and this spoke right to that for me.

 

Thank you.

~Phree

 

[2i3zz31iz74ww]

Thanks so much. I've saved a lot of time in my life by cutting to the chase, so to speak. marK

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Hear Hear!

[2i3zz31iz74ww]

I went through a lot of angry times before I finally figured out the best approach (most of the time) is to simply say " I don't agree with you but I won't interfere with your life as long as you afford me the same courtesy " (or at least something like that). Thanks for checking this out.  marK