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K G Aug 2015
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You're indecisive, no?
Why so hesitant and tentative
I can recognize you from upside down
Across the page on the left, oh you right
Show me wrong and I'll understand the plan itself, on the shelf I see your figure, out something to make you happy and why I need the extra day
Rewind everything to a new version and topic on this integration
You're indecisive, no?
Why so hesitant and tentative
K G Aug 2015
Thinking back I wasn't half bad
You made fun of my name
Saying its shamed
You have so many faces
You can be a real pain but you can mostly make up for it
You ignore your other faces
Everytime I bring It up you cant speak
You like listening to oasis
You said I might not like it
But I thought it was racist
And you're so dissuasive
We go through this on a regular basis
Turning the pages hoping we'd find a new solution
K G Aug 2015
They said they knew the others
they knew our names
But they were acting like stoners, pretending to have a disease
She came storming in like a lizard in a blizzard, Hollering about who attacked her
They told her to sit down and wait
They faked working and played games
Sent sat there with the same look on her face
After their shift was over they left with a vigorous blur
She went home terrified as I recall, as for all
She went to sleep with her eyelids up
Everyday
And it won't stop
No no no
She go's to her hideaway
She cries for help
Because she's the violated girl
She cries for not being alone
Because she's the lonely girl
K G Aug 2015
Happy?
I'd rather be
It's dinner time.
I'm all ready full of anxiety
Creepy?
How I'm going on alone
Sometimes.
You try to make me happy
You try to get to know me
Somewhere.
You're out there fighting solo
So long.
To the old house we buried with stones
Can't wait.
Another day going by again
Show me.
Another lane to the next path
Somewhere.
Shedding all the sounds
You'll never ever be found
You'll be far from the stars
You'll be closer to the clouds
Come back.
You tried to make me happy
You tried to get to know me
You didn't want to harm me
We will go down the lane slowly
To make us happy
To help us finally be happy
  Aug 2015 K G
Shel Silverstein
If you were only one inch tall, you'd ride a worm to school.
The teardrop of a crying ant would be your swimming pool.
A crumb of cake would be a feast
And last you seven days at least,
A flea would be a frightening beast
If you were one inch tall.

If you were only one inch tall, you'd walk beneath the door,
And it would take about a month to get down to the store.
A bit of fluff would be your bed,
You'd swing upon a spider's thread,
And wear a thimble on your head
If you were one inch tall.

You'd surf across the kitchen sink upon a stick of gum.
You couldn't hug your mama, you'd just have to hug her thumb.
You'd run from people's feet in fright,
To move a pen would take all night,
(This poem took fourteen years to write--
'Cause I'm just one inch tall).
  Aug 2015 K G
Shel Silverstein
Well, my daddy left home when I was three,
and he didn't leave much to Ma and me,
just this old guitar and a bottle of *****.
Now I don't blame him because he run and hid,
but the meanest thing that he ever did was
before he left he went and named me Sue.

Well, he must have thought it was quite a joke,
and it got lots of laughs from a lot of folks,
it seems I had to fight my whole life through.
Some gal would giggle and I'd get red
and some guy would laugh and I'd bust his head,
I tell you, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue.

Well, I grew up quick and I grew up mean.
My fist got hard and my wits got keen.
Roamed from town to town to hide my shame,
but I made me a vow to the moon and the stars,
I'd search the ***** tonks and bars and ****
that man that gave me that awful name.

But it was Gatlinburg in mid July and I had
just hit town and my throat was dry.
I'd thought i'd stop and have myself a brew.
At an old saloon in a street of mud
and at a table dealing stud sat the *****,
mangy dog that named me Sue.

Well, I knew that snake was my own sweet dad
from a worn-out picture that my mother had
and I knew the scar on his cheek and his evil eye.
He was big and bent and gray and old
and I looked at him and my blood ran cold,
and I said, "My name is Sue. How do you do?
Now you're gonna die." Yeah, that's what I told him.

Well, I hit him right between the eyes and he went down
but to my surprise he came up with a knife
and cut off a piece of my ear. But I busted a chair
right across his teeth. And we crashed through
the wall and into the street kicking and a-gouging
in the mud and the blood and the beer.

I tell you I've fought tougher men but I really can't remember when.
He kicked like a mule and bit like a crocodile.
I heard him laughin' and then I heard him cussin',
he went for his gun and I pulled mine first.
He stood there looking at me and I saw him smile.

And he said, "Son, this world is rough and if
a man's gonna make it, he's gotta be tough
and I knew I wouldn't be there to help you along.
So I gave you that name and I said 'Goodbye'.
I knew you'd have to get tough or die. And it's
that name that helped to make you strong."

Yeah, he said, "Now you have just fought one
helluva fight, and I know you hate me and you've
got the right to **** me now and I wouldn't blame you
if you do. But you ought to thank me
before I die for the gravel in your guts and the spit
in your eye because I'm the nut that named you Sue."
Yeah, what could I do? What could I do?

I got all choked up and I threw down my gun,
called him pa and he called me a son,
and I came away with a different point of view
and I think about him now and then.
Every time I tried, every time I win and if I
ever have a son I think I am gonna name him
Bill or George - anything but Sue.
  Aug 2015 K G
Shel Silverstein
I opened my eyes
And looked up at the rain,
And it dripped in my head
And flowed into my brain,
And all that I hear as I lie in my bed
Is the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head.

I step very softly,
I walk very slow,
I can't do a handstand--
I might overflow,
So pardon the wild crazy thing I just said--
I'm just not the same since there's rain in my head.
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