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The world around me slows to a crawl,
No one around me knows me at all.
I look over the crowd of familiar faces,
From various times and different places.
They laugh and they play, one and another,
All with secret pains, I’m just like the others.
 Apr 2014 Paul Thomas Galbally
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I never knew-

How was I to know  
you'd throw it away
day after day, yeah
it's all the same with you-
I've done all I can do
now, the rest is up to you,
so I think you're *******.
But, what else is new?
Yeah, what else is-
[Instrumental break]

And I never knew
any folks quite like you, no:
take all they can, now-
are not as they claim to be at all.
You're so full of ****.
We're so full of ****.
Yeah, I'm full of-
[Instrumental break]

Well, I never knew,
though I should have known,
the source of the blame,
yet wallows in shame,
and suffers the pain
and all the disdain, yeah;
of what has been sewn so well,
of what has been sewn so far, yeah,
of what has been-
[Instrumental break]

At least I have learned from
what I have been through-
better than you have seemed to do,
but that's all on you,
so I think you're ******, man,
so torally *******, man.
But, what else is new?
But that's nothing new.
Thats nothing-

I want to be wrong.
I hope I am wrong.
I doubt that I'm wrong.
I don't think you can or will,
but please prove me wrong.
A song I've been working on.
Mostly in 7/4 at roughly 60 bpm.

Here's a sketch to give an idea of how it will sound later:
https://soundcloud.com/apexparadigm/i-never-knew-sketch
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There is no truth
That my name was Dr. Seuss
In a prior life

Signed
Ogdiddy Natsh
~
No matter that plain words
are my ordinary tools,
with them I shall
scribe the small,
cherish the little,
grab the middle,
simplicity my golden rule.

Write they say,
about what you know best
surely in the diurnal motions
the arc of daily commotion
do we not all excel?
~
me, just a poet poseur extraordinaire,
street urchin, word merchant,
all my verbally,
worldly goods expropriated
from the wind,
where your scattered thoughts
lie about, carelessly, unattended
~
Scout the competition.
Then,
Weep,
for you and I will never surpass
the poet giants who preceeded us,
and yet,
Laugh,
cause they thought the same as well
--
So I spend my cold, hard time
laying down cold hard verse,
can't stop, cause
it's my daddy's dying curse
~
Addict and dealer,
a ****** poet ******
Snippets from old poems for new readers...
One well versed enough in Philosophy
"knows" that nothing is ever quite true.
for Joel*


been Fryed
exposed white bones crisped
secrets out
all my life tempted to
"ride the third rail of madness"

to find my peace

but all rails paralleled,
run and ran,
mine had no terminus final

so I tried a tighter, ever growing smaller
circle electric

merging two failing arcs
became

a single dot

and that Is why even my
Punctuation Free Poems
end thusly.
Thank you kind kind sir
Mr. Joey Frye
http://hellopoetry.com/poem/628915/the-courage-to-seek/

my courage, even my vocabulary, has been crushed by life,
yet I ride one rail of almost normal, a second of
spurned poet poseur extraordinaire.
So when the  third rail asked why not me?
I could no longer refuse
for the question answered itself,
at last an ending.
 Apr 2014 Paul Thomas Galbally
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Why is hellopoetry.com black and white? I've always wondered about this... why my colorful photographs are required to travel back in time. How does this effect the poetry in any way, shape, or form? But I understand the wisdom of this design now. And it sets a great metaphor for all of the people of the pen involved in this truly noble motion, this secret society for people with passion, talent, and troubled minds and souls. Hello Poetry is black and white not because it has to be monochromatic and modern, but because us poets fill these pages with enough inovativeness and color already with our words, ideas, thoughts, songs, senryus, ballads, heartbreaks, insecurities, that adding literal color to this website would be overwhelming. These soft undertones of gray, black, and white may be considered drab and depressing to some, but to us poets it represents timelessness. And this is probably why we are all here. Hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or even yearly publishing poems. Because we all know we are not going to live forever, and we are so entirely insignificant in the broad scheme of things and of the universe itself, that it is a bit comforting and helpful to have this coping mechanism or soft blankie to calm our fears, that this literature we write, however insignificant it may be, is absolutley permanent. And that maybe someday it will be remembered so a small bit of us may live on. Tom Riddle knew the needs and wants of man kind before anybody else realized it. Maybe he was just trying to cope with the fact that he is insignificant. These poems are all our Horcruxes so *viveamus per camenam nostram.
^^^let us live through our poetry
You stab me in the back with a knife,
and I apologize for bleeding on it.
I wrote this for you a long time ago on a coffee stained napkin, after you left me, full of love, lingering in a cafe.

"For you, in all your follies and faults and the way they make you so perfect for me.
For you, in the moments that linger in the vehemently insignificant corners and corridors of things, as if drifted of their own grandure.
For you, for the words that spill to the floor and the brilliant way you understand the deafening silence that follows.
For you, for your supernovas and clever shades, for your daylight smiles and nighttime skins.
For you, for your familiarity and the impossible truths that stand as martyrs to say that I have loved you before.
For you, despite the treachery and quiet sinister fun of the world.
For you, for making me so terribly scared of dying."
Yet here I am, in your wake, so full of so many thoughts and demons. Know that I have died, that I have loved and lost with equal measure.
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