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I tried, x ** something I get a lot is, “you’re too young to be a feminist.” too young to be a feminist for you’ve yet to witness a rhyme or reason to believe we lived in a patriarch-fueled society where the erectile dysfunctions of men are paid for by health care but, God forbid a woman seeks birth control to help herself God forbid a woman does anything to help herself a society where women are taught to be happy with what they can get yet to be ashamed when they get it a society where I grew up being taught not to trust a man for he’d hurt me but taught to have the house clean and his dinner on the table when he got home a society where a woman in a tank top and a pair of daisy dukes is a ***** who is asking for it” when the same woman is what’s used to market the male population who are taught that this is the woman they deserve a society where a woman is unworthy and ***** if she isn’t a ****** but a man is a man so long as he is “getting the hoes” a society where women are taught to protect their innocence and their virtue and the society where they are ostracized and ridiculed for not being ready a society where consent is hopped, skipped, and jumped around and the so called “fact” issued by Scott Johnson that says men can’t control their issues a society where a woman’s womb is not her own whether she wants this baby or not I was taught *** was shameful and wrong unless you were married but please, give him a baby and keep him satisfied we glorify teen pregnancies and ignore the accomplishments of women if I’m too young to be a feminist, then it’s quite **** sad I can point out what’s wrong in the world.
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Mar 23, 2014
Mar 23, 2014 at 1:45 PM UTC
"You're Too Young to Be A Feminist" // Slam Poetry Transcript
I tried, x ** something I get a lot is, “you’re too young to be a feminist.” too young to be a feminist for you’ve yet to witness a rhyme or reason to believe we lived in a patriarch-fueled society where the erectile dysfunctions of men are paid for by health care but, God forbid a woman seeks birth control to help herself God forbid a woman does anything to help herself a society where women are taught to be happy with what they can get yet to be ashamed when they get it a society where I grew up being taught not to trust a man for he’d hurt me but taught to have the house clean and his dinner on the table when he got home a society where a woman in a tank top and a pair of daisy dukes is a ***** who is asking for it” when the same woman is what’s used to market the male population who are taught that this is the woman they deserve a society where a woman is unworthy and ***** if she isn’t a ****** but a man is a man so long as he is “getting the hoes” a society where women are taught to protect their innocence and their virtue and the society where they are ostracized and ridiculed for not being ready a society where consent is hopped, skipped, and jumped around and the so called “fact” issued by Scott Johnson that says men can’t control their issues a society where a woman’s womb is not her own whether she wants this baby or not I was taught *** was shameful and wrong unless you were married but please, give him a baby and keep him satisfied we glorify teen pregnancies and ignore the accomplishments of women if I’m too young to be a feminist, then it’s quite **** sad I can point out what’s wrong in the world.
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Every couple 'a years or so Our family reunites It takes a couple 'a years or so To recover from the fights A family like our'n Doesn't party like most do Ours gets a little out of hand That's why we have so few It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's daisy dukes and forty Lukes They're racing trucks and burning rubber There's jugs of moonshine everywhere And at least a hundred bubbas There's a smoker fired for the food the size of two large trucks It hold 4 cows, and fourteen pigs And at least a hundred ducks It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's pickled this and pickled that And things you just can't swallow That used to live down in the swamp Way back there in the hollow There's at least ten shotgun weddings there And the groom might be rail roaded But, the wedding isn't legal If the shotgun isn't loaded It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's greased up pigs and muddy runts And at least ten bobby sues and when they all get greased up You can't tell which is who There's horseshoe pits for tossing shoes And games of every sort Most of them aren't legal And would get you into court It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball But, it's the way we like it Drinking shine and acting out Tossing things that aren't tied down And wrassling about There's music there of just one kind It's country and that matters Any other sort of sound Sets the crowd off like mad hatters It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's always someone who's so drunk And it's normally the preacher Last year we married him off To the back up first grade teacher There's Chevy trucks of every kind And one covered in sod Mary Lou showed her tattoo "Jeff Foxworthy is my God" It's the best time of the year for us And it's sad when it must end but, you gotta haul your *** away When the cops come round that bend It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball
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Jul 23, 2013
Jul 23, 2013 at 12:01 AM UTC
Redneck Family Reunion
Every couple 'a years or so Our family reunites It takes a couple 'a years or so To recover from the fights A family like our'n Doesn't party like most do Ours gets a little out of hand That's why we have so few It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's daisy dukes and forty Lukes They're racing trucks and burning rubber There's jugs of moonshine everywhere And at least a hundred bubbas There's a smoker fired for the food the size of two large trucks It hold 4 cows, and fourteen pigs And at least a hundred ducks It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's pickled this and pickled that And things you just can't swallow That used to live down in the swamp Way back there in the hollow There's at least ten shotgun weddings there And the groom might be rail roaded But, the wedding isn't legal If the shotgun isn't loaded It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's greased up pigs and muddy runts And at least ten bobby sues and when they all get greased up You can't tell which is who There's horseshoe pits for tossing shoes And games of every sort Most of them aren't legal And would get you into court It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball But, it's the way we like it Drinking shine and acting out Tossing things that aren't tied down And wrassling about There's music there of just one kind It's country and that matters Any other sort of sound Sets the crowd off like mad hatters It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's always someone who's so drunk And it's normally the preacher Last year we married him off To the back up first grade teacher There's Chevy trucks of every kind And one covered in sod Mary Lou showed her tattoo "Jeff Foxworthy is my God" It's the best time of the year for us And it's sad when it must end but, you gotta haul your *** away When the cops come round that bend It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball
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"Redneck Family Reunion" http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v;=jfHwg22ZqhU (Verse 1) A family like ours don't party like most Ours gets a little out of hand They're racing trucks and burning rubber And tearing up all the land There's jars of moonshine and daisy dukes Everywhere you look Ol' Bocephus on the radio And catfish on every hook (Chorus) It's a redneck family reunion Everybody has a good time Eatin' all of grandma's cookin' And drinkin' all of grandpa's shine You're never gonna go home hungry If you make it home at all Yeah, it's a redneck family reunion And everybody has a ball (Verse 2) There's horseshoe pits for tossin' shoes And games of every sort Most of them ain't legal And will land your *** in court 4 wheel trails that will lead you to Way back in that hollow Don't you dive head first into that pool You know it's way to shallow (Repeat Chorus) (Bridge) It's the best time of the year for us And it's sad that it must end But you know it's time to head on home When the cops come round the bend (Repeat Chorus)
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Aug 7, 2013
Aug 7, 2013 at 10:26 AM UTC
Redneck Family Reunion - video now on youtube.
This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll This song it ain't bout country things Like pickup trucks and cars You'll never find me writing About getting drunk in bars There's no mention here of Taylor Swift or The Charlie Daniels Band I wouldn't write of how the banks are taking our farmland This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll I don't know **** 'bout Redneck stuff like hunting dogs and guns I wouldn't write of Daisy Dukes showing off some hot babes buns I won't write 'bout the Opry I don't know all that stuff Of Minnie Pearl and Grandpa Jones And Mr. Roy Acuff This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll There's nothing here 'bout Bourbon or of Racing through the fields I don't know much about farming or crop futures or of yields I listen to The Rolling Stones Trace Adkins I don't like Lady A can go away Kid Rock can ride his bike You won't hear much about Zac Browns Band or of food thats Chicken Fried I might go to a hoedown If I'd  just  up and died My music, it fulfills me It makes me who I am But I'll stay away from country songs, Cause I don't give a **** No Oak Ridge Boys or Hee Haw Here Hank Williams I won't buy I'll never buy a Dixie Beer It's a drink I'll never try I won't sing about Kentucky or of a Texas Yellow Rose you know this aint no country song Good god I hope it shows There's no mohter, dogs or applie pie no  fishin' in the dark No Everything is Beautiful No songs by Terry Clark I'm really open minded My friends they are the same We won't buy country music To us it's just so lame This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll I won't mention stuff you'll find in songs by Nashville bands There's nothing here about watching football in the stands I'll never write a country song Cause country just ain't fun Oh crap I just read this thing And I think I just wrote one This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll
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May 4, 2012
May 4, 2012 at 10:33 AM UTC
This Ain't A ****** Country Song
This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll This song it ain't bout country things Like pickup trucks and cars You'll never find me writing About getting drunk in bars There's no mention here of Taylor Swift or The Charlie Daniels Band I wouldn't write of how the banks are taking our farmland This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll I don't know **** 'bout Redneck stuff like hunting dogs and guns I wouldn't write of Daisy Dukes showing off some hot babes buns I won't write 'bout the Opry I don't know all that stuff Of Minnie Pearl and Grandpa Jones And Mr. Roy Acuff This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll There's nothing here 'bout Bourbon or of Racing through the fields I don't know much about farming or crop futures or of yields I listen to The Rolling Stones Trace Adkins I don't like Lady A can go away Kid Rock can ride his bike You won't hear much about Zac Browns Band or of food thats Chicken Fried I might go to a hoedown If I'd  just  up and died My music, it fulfills me It makes me who I am But I'll stay away from country songs, Cause I don't give a **** No Oak Ridge Boys or Hee Haw Here Hank Williams I won't buy I'll never buy a Dixie Beer It's a drink I'll never try I won't sing about Kentucky or of a Texas Yellow Rose you know this aint no country song Good god I hope it shows There's no mohter, dogs or applie pie no  fishin' in the dark No Everything is Beautiful No songs by Terry Clark I'm really open minded My friends they are the same We won't buy country music To us it's just so lame This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll I won't mention stuff you'll find in songs by Nashville bands There's nothing here about watching football in the stands I'll never write a country song Cause country just ain't fun Oh crap I just read this thing And I think I just wrote one This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll
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She's my pretty city country girl She's something I can't lose Is she livin' in  the country or the city, she must choose You know I really love her She's the one I really want But if she moves off to the city It's my heart she'll stay and haunt. When I first saw her smiling face It was a good old summers day She had moved down from the city And I hoped that she would stay We played games out in the haystacks We ran races through the corn Turn left and hit the river Turn right, you're lost till morn She's my pretty city country girl She's something I can't lose Is she livin' in  the country or the city, she must choose You know I really love her She's the one I really want But if she moves off to the city It's my heart she'll stay and haunt. She occupied my dreams then And still does to this day Back then I hardly new her I just hoped that she would stay Short shorts and Gingham dresses made her look the country part But high heels and silk organza Tugged the city in her heart She's my pretty city country girl She's something I can't lose Is she livin' in  the country or the city, she must choose You know I really love her She's the one I really want But if she moves off to the city It's my heart she'll stay and haunt. We'd go to high school hoedowns And dance like no one else was there But when she heard Big Band Music She was dreaming of Times Square She loved to go out touring In my pickup through the crops But in my heart I knew she missed The sounds of taxi cabs and cops She's my pretty city country girl She's something I can't lose Is she livin' in  the country or the city, she must choose You know I really love her She's the one I really want But if she moves off to the city It's my heart she'll stay and haunt. She stayed here all through high school But I knew deep down it had to end I knew if I tried to say "I Love You" she'd say "I love you like a friend" She knew I'd never leave here And I knew she had it made If she went back to the city And stopped her country masquerade She's my pretty city country girl She's something I can't lose Is she livin' in  the country or the city, she must choose You know I really love her She's the one I really want But if she moves off to the city It's my heart she'll stay and haunt. It was two weeks past commencement When I told her what I thought Then I dropped down to me knee right there And I showed her what I'd bought I looked into her smiling eyes And prayed that she'd say yes Would she choose to stay in Daisy Dukes Or go back to her chiffon dress I'll let you guess the answer By the way I end this poem But I'm still here in the country And she's waiting now at home. She's my pretty city country girl She's something I can't lose Is she livin' in  the country or the city, she must choose You know I really love her She's the one I really want But if she moves off to the city It's my heart she'll stay and haunt.
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May 26, 2012
May 26, 2012 at 7:08 PM UTC
Pretty City Country Girl
She's my pretty city country girl She's something I can't lose Is she livin' in  the country or the city, she must choose You know I really love her She's the one I really want But if she moves off to the city It's my heart she'll stay and haunt. When I first saw her smiling face It was a good old summers day She had moved down from the city And I hoped that she would stay We played games out in the haystacks We ran races through the corn Turn left and hit the river Turn right, you're lost till morn She's my pretty city country girl She's something I can't lose Is she livin' in  the country or the city, she must choose You know I really love her She's the one I really want But if she moves off to the city It's my heart she'll stay and haunt. She occupied my dreams then And still does to this day Back then I hardly new her I just hoped that she would stay Short shorts and Gingham dresses made her look the country part But high heels and silk organza Tugged the city in her heart She's my pretty city country girl She's something I can't lose Is she livin' in  the country or the city, she must choose You know I really love her She's the one I really want But if she moves off to the city It's my heart she'll stay and haunt. We'd go to high school hoedowns And dance like no one else was there But when she heard Big Band Music She was dreaming of Times Square She loved to go out touring In my pickup through the crops But in my heart I knew she missed The sounds of taxi cabs and cops She's my pretty city country girl She's something I can't lose Is she livin' in  the country or the city, she must choose You know I really love her She's the one I really want But if she moves off to the city It's my heart she'll stay and haunt. She stayed here all through high school But I knew deep down it had to end I knew if I tried to say "I Love You" she'd say "I love you like a friend" She knew I'd never leave here And I knew she had it made If she went back to the city And stopped her country masquerade She's my pretty city country girl She's something I can't lose Is she livin' in  the country or the city, she must choose You know I really love her She's the one I really want But if she moves off to the city It's my heart she'll stay and haunt. It was two weeks past commencement When I told her what I thought Then I dropped down to me knee right there And I showed her what I'd bought I looked into her smiling eyes And prayed that she'd say yes Would she choose to stay in Daisy Dukes Or go back to her chiffon dress I'll let you guess the answer By the way I end this poem But I'm still here in the country And she's waiting now at home. She's my pretty city country girl She's something I can't lose Is she livin' in  the country or the city, she must choose You know I really love her She's the one I really want But if she moves off to the city It's my heart she'll stay and haunt.
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∙∙∙◦◦•◎•◦◦∙∙∙ Sometimes (Just like these days) When my heart sang a placid song the speaking brooks meanders my soul Wild hounds hovered the meadows And the sky was blue ethereal as the billow strews in shades anew For Daybreak is awake On the fields of glowing weeds a subtle flower blooms through the breeze And to thee, it kisses the gentle mist Oh! what a Morning Oh! what a day When trees glistens from beams of never ending sun rays made me so gay so yes, it can be. Sometimes (Just like these days) Like Diamonds & Gold upon barren land and rubies worn by a maiden’s hand Oh! what an Evening Oh! what a way When monarchs flew from voluptuous crooks dodging witches and evil dukes Callous, Treacherous "A Foolish Irony" might I say but yes, it can be. Sometimes (Just like these days)
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May 25, 2017
May 25, 2017 at 9:28 AM UTC
Sometimes (Just Like These Days)
I stand here on a street corner, daisy dukes and fish nets, my favorite Metallica crop top floating up on moonlit skin. Monster truck inching close, breath pacing through the city streets, I walk to the edge of his dark lair to bite any hesitation. With curt words and close heads I smell the whiskey in his breathe. Pulling into the alley's grip, I let him lead and grit my teeth. "Shhhh, I won't get busted again." the whiskey whispers against my ear, "Don't make a peep." Then I'm not sure if it's man or whiskey who turns me around in callused hands. He spits first, entering with a grunt, and my hands slide down the window with each ****** 5 minutes. I horn honks in the distance, long and mad, as whiskey man unloads on my back, along with his long, satisfied growl. That's it, with a reluctant 20 bucks, and I'm back biting the wind.
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Apr 5, 2015
Apr 5, 2015 at 9:20 PM UTC
1:45 a.m. job (explicit)
Everyday I wake up, thinking sleeping seconds take up all the space up in a mind that wont shut up! So don't get up, don't stand up, for sure don't put your hands up. I got so many heavy feelings I wont ever touch the ceiling. But I throw the blanket of me, all the shaking and the tossing lost me seconds and it threatens that by end of the sentence, with the dot a tock will deaden all the world here of this presence. Ya I guess that you could say I'm afraid of death, and that by the time I get to hell there wont be anything scary left, so I take aim and shoot at life like it's the wild wild west, I count on chaos, okay, I don't live for the blessed. Get me out of this feeling, my head is messed. Get me out of this feeling, my head is messed. Oh, get yourself into some sunshine, relax in the feeling unwind, let the warmth settle inside. It's alright, it's alright. Put your dukes down, love. There's no fight. Relax in the feeling unwind, let the warmth settle inside. It's alright, it's alright. I gotta say I'm feelin' pretty dark here tonight, but she's dark and she's pretty, so I guess it could be alright! Maybe she can replace this feeling that always makes me wanna fight. I bite lightning, spight right wings with shocking mockings that got me walking away from any kind of kinder light Tell me to bare some arms I might! But then I take a second and remember all the reasons it is that I come back again and fight. Ya I guess that you could say I'm afraid of death, I take aim and shoot at life like it's the wild wild west, so by the time I get to hell there wont be anything scary left, I count on chaos, okay, I don't live for the blessed. Get me out of this feeling, my head is messed. Get me out of this feeling, my head is messed. Oh, get yourself into some sunshine, relax in the feeling unwind, let the warmth settle inside. It's alright, it's alright. Put your dukes down, love. There's no fight. Relax in the feeling unwind, let the warmth settle inside. It's alright, it's alright. Imagine what it is you could do, if everybody in your life was in support of you, and were the wind up on which you flew wouldn't you do all the things that you imagined you could do? Imagine what it is you could do, if everybody in your life was in support of you, and were the wind up on which you flew. Wouldn't you do all of the things that life inspired you to do? Imagine what it is you could do, if everybody in your life was in support of you, and were the wind up on which you flew. Wouldn't you do all the things that you imagined you could do? Oh, imagine what it is they could do If all your friends and family were supported by you, and you were the wind upon which they flew. You'd be a little scared to imagine them without you. Wouldn't you? Oh, get yourself into some sunshine, relax in the feeling unwind, let the warmth settle inside. It's alright, it's alright. Put your dukes down, love. There's no fight. Relax in the feeling unwind, let the warmth settle inside. It's alright, it's alright. Oh, imagine what it is they could do If all your friends and family were supported by you, and you were the wind upon which they flew. You'd be a little scared to imagine them without you. Wouldn't you?
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May 2, 2014
May 2, 2014 at 4:40 PM UTC
Alright
Everyday I wake up, thinking sleeping seconds take up all the space up in a mind that wont shut up! So don't get up, don't stand up, for sure don't put your hands up. I got so many heavy feelings I wont ever touch the ceiling. But I throw the blanket of me, all the shaking and the tossing lost me seconds and it threatens that by end of the sentence, with the dot a tock will deaden all the world here of this presence. Ya I guess that you could say I'm afraid of death, and that by the time I get to hell there wont be anything scary left, so I take aim and shoot at life like it's the wild wild west, I count on chaos, okay, I don't live for the blessed. Get me out of this feeling, my head is messed. Get me out of this feeling, my head is messed. Oh, get yourself into some sunshine, relax in the feeling unwind, let the warmth settle inside. It's alright, it's alright. Put your dukes down, love. There's no fight. Relax in the feeling unwind, let the warmth settle inside. It's alright, it's alright. I gotta say I'm feelin' pretty dark here tonight, but she's dark and she's pretty, so I guess it could be alright! Maybe she can replace this feeling that always makes me wanna fight. I bite lightning, spight right wings with shocking mockings that got me walking away from any kind of kinder light Tell me to bare some arms I might! But then I take a second and remember all the reasons it is that I come back again and fight. Ya I guess that you could say I'm afraid of death, I take aim and shoot at life like it's the wild wild west, so by the time I get to hell there wont be anything scary left, I count on chaos, okay, I don't live for the blessed. Get me out of this feeling, my head is messed. Get me out of this feeling, my head is messed. Oh, get yourself into some sunshine, relax in the feeling unwind, let the warmth settle inside. It's alright, it's alright. Put your dukes down, love. There's no fight. Relax in the feeling unwind, let the warmth settle inside. It's alright, it's alright. Imagine what it is you could do, if everybody in your life was in support of you, and were the wind up on which you flew wouldn't you do all the things that you imagined you could do? Imagine what it is you could do, if everybody in your life was in support of you, and were the wind up on which you flew. Wouldn't you do all of the things that life inspired you to do? Imagine what it is you could do, if everybody in your life was in support of you, and were the wind up on which you flew. Wouldn't you do all the things that you imagined you could do? Oh, imagine what it is they could do If all your friends and family were supported by you, and you were the wind upon which they flew. You'd be a little scared to imagine them without you. Wouldn't you? Oh, get yourself into some sunshine, relax in the feeling unwind, let the warmth settle inside. It's alright, it's alright. Put your dukes down, love. There's no fight. Relax in the feeling unwind, let the warmth settle inside. It's alright, it's alright. Oh, imagine what it is they could do If all your friends and family were supported by you, and you were the wind upon which they flew. You'd be a little scared to imagine them without you. Wouldn't you?
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I have done many exceptional things in my life. I have traveled to far-away worlds with effervescent seas. I have fought alongside rebels and mutineers: against oppressive dukes and deities. I, so vividly, remember the times I danced on the tops of skyscrapers. Thereafter howling at the moon with my fellow gypsies. But more than that, I remember the gentle laughter of friends. I remember the soft hands of those I love on mine, while the sunsetted on an entirely unforgettable day. I find my grandest adventures after the sun has dipped down out of sight, and the moon has risen to illuminate my so out of focus world. I find them as I’m hunched over in my bed. I find them as my fingers are trembling over the keys of a laptop; the glow of the screen burning in my eyes. As I rip post-it notes full of ideas off my walls and mesh them together, I become some sort of enchanter; thus beginning yet another journey. Although I may have not truly gone on such adventures, the feeling would remain the same if I had. Because, as I’ve come to realize, the truest of grand adventures starts with simply a single blank page and the desire to tell an earth-shattering story.
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Apr 2, 2016
Apr 2, 2016 at 10:25 PM UTC
Grand Adventures
Slashers Defined In response to my piece, Slashers, it was requested that maybe I could reveal at least which band or other info these great guitar players performed for to gain their claim to fame. I don't want to spend too much time on this defintion, but will give what info I think is pertinent. If you do not know some of the names I have presented to you, and you are a blues, rock, jazz, fusion guitar fan, I suggest you take the time to listen to some of their work. I have included some of my favorite incredible fusion players that do not have a super star following, but are renowned in their group of fans, probably mostly musicians to some degree. If you are a frustrated guitar player like I am, do not listen to the likes of Holdsworth, Johnson, Gambale, or Morse unless you love being tortured. Anyway on with the show. Eric Clapton – Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos. Jimmy Page – Yardbirds, Led Zeppe, The Honeydrippers, The Firm Jimi Hendrix – not only what is, but, what could have been Alan Holdsworth – Solo jazz fusion player – hot Steve Howe – Yes, Asia - Progressive rock, jazz – Bill Nelson – BeBop Deluxe, Solo Terry Kath – Chicago (25 or 6 to 4) – another sad early departure Ted Nugent – Amboy Dukes, **** Yankees – The madman Jim Krueger – Dave Mason Band – solo progressive rock Eddy Van Halen – Van Halen Ritchie Blackmore – Deep Purple, Rainbow Jerry Doucette – Doucette (Mama let him play) Eric Johnson – Solo – New Age, jazz Frank Gambale – Australian- Jazz, fusion, rock Goerge Benson – Jazz Larry Carlton – Jazz, new age rock Marc Farner - Grand Funk Railroad Peter Frampton – Humble Pie, solo Joe Satriani - New age – solo Johnny A. - jazz, new age – solo Danny Gatton – jazz, rockabilly – solo Chet Atkins – jazz, country John Mayer – Pop, blues – solo Neal Schon – Journey Steve Lukather – Toto Masyoshi Takanaka – New age, jazz – Japanese solo Lee Ritnour – Jazz, new age – solo Leslie West - Mountain, West Bruce & Laing Monty Montgomery – jazz, blues (accoustic you have never heard) Wes Montgomery – jazz 40's – 50's Phil Keaggy – New age Christian Robin Trower – Procul Harem Brian May – Queen Rick Derringer – Montrose, Edgar Winter Group, Steely Dan Robin Ford – John Mayall, Chick Corea, solo jazz, fusion, blues Carlos Santana – Santana Ronnie Montrose – Montrose Steve Morse – Dixie Dregs, Kansas, solo jazz, fusion Trevor Rabin – Yes, solo new age Gomer LePoet...
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Jun 10, 2010
Jun 10, 2010 at 1:19 PM UTC
Slashers Defined
Slashers Defined In response to my piece, Slashers, it was requested that maybe I could reveal at least which band or other info these great guitar players performed for to gain their claim to fame. I don't want to spend too much time on this defintion, but will give what info I think is pertinent. If you do not know some of the names I have presented to you, and you are a blues, rock, jazz, fusion guitar fan, I suggest you take the time to listen to some of their work. I have included some of my favorite incredible fusion players that do not have a super star following, but are renowned in their group of fans, probably mostly musicians to some degree. If you are a frustrated guitar player like I am, do not listen to the likes of Holdsworth, Johnson, Gambale, or Morse unless you love being tortured. Anyway on with the show. Eric Clapton – Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos. Jimmy Page – Yardbirds, Led Zeppe, The Honeydrippers, The Firm Jimi Hendrix – not only what is, but, what could have been Alan Holdsworth – Solo jazz fusion player – hot Steve Howe – Yes, Asia - Progressive rock, jazz – Bill Nelson – BeBop Deluxe, Solo Terry Kath – Chicago (25 or 6 to 4) – another sad early departure Ted Nugent – Amboy Dukes, **** Yankees – The madman Jim Krueger – Dave Mason Band – solo progressive rock Eddy Van Halen – Van Halen Ritchie Blackmore – Deep Purple, Rainbow Jerry Doucette – Doucette (Mama let him play) Eric Johnson – Solo – New Age, jazz Frank Gambale – Australian- Jazz, fusion, rock Goerge Benson – Jazz Larry Carlton – Jazz, new age rock Marc Farner - Grand Funk Railroad Peter Frampton – Humble Pie, solo Joe Satriani - New age – solo Johnny A. - jazz, new age – solo Danny Gatton – jazz, rockabilly – solo Chet Atkins – jazz, country John Mayer – Pop, blues – solo Neal Schon – Journey Steve Lukather – Toto Masyoshi Takanaka – New age, jazz – Japanese solo Lee Ritnour – Jazz, new age – solo Leslie West - Mountain, West Bruce & Laing Monty Montgomery – jazz, blues (accoustic you have never heard) Wes Montgomery – jazz 40's – 50's Phil Keaggy – New age Christian Robin Trower – Procul Harem Brian May – Queen Rick Derringer – Montrose, Edgar Winter Group, Steely Dan Robin Ford – John Mayall, Chick Corea, solo jazz, fusion, blues Carlos Santana – Santana Ronnie Montrose – Montrose Steve Morse – Dixie Dregs, Kansas, solo jazz, fusion Trevor Rabin – Yes, solo new age Gomer LePoet...
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Clicking their way forward and back, Flip-flopping into or hearts If a girl can con money Out of their fathers’ pockets, who’s to say They can’t sway politicians? Their lips kiss pictures. Pictures of cannabis leaves, yellow and smiling They live until they die, don’t live until they’re married And if they don’t find what they want, what else do they need besides a crowd of fellow millennials Caring, caring? Caring about cannabis’ rights and the right to carry a GBF, their money, their frame and, above all, pepper spray These girls are the new honest, hard-working man, Their sweet scent is coming. Sweet pea and Moonlight Path. the top-selling fragrances at Bath and Body Works Their battle-cry is only as loud as their looks Daisy dukes and Katy Perry whispering, “What the hell is she wearing? She dons thin, rose-gold underwear and she’s lazy yet keyed-up in her own skin Her lovers are all the same but she blames all men. Her wings are Pink, they protect her from catcalls.
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Jul 9, 2016
Jul 9, 2016 at 1:04 AM UTC
Sweet Pea and Moonlight Path
If you have money you work and if you work you have money and the cycle continues especially in a place like New York that do the same thing over and over again But there is a difference between workers I am a worker I look at the tall buildings in New York Like a medieval anarchy the top full of kings and queens,dukes and knights the bottom full of peasants and slaves and at the bottom full of witches burning in hell those witches burning in greed and sin that they did not commit there feet burning in ashes from their work from surrendering to the higher ups crying to be release to the surface but knowing they will always be chain to their hell. So while I was sweeping the floor for greedy saints I look up, took my broom and fly fly just like a witch breaking my ties with eternal hell forever severing the bonds of surrendering and greed of work and money
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Jul 23, 2014
Jul 23, 2014 at 4:30 PM UTC
Work and Money and Witches?
it is tempting to lose yourself in the pleasure of wordly possessions money, cars, yachts, beautiful things the Dagobert Duck syndrome as we know even the pharaos of ancient times together with assorted kings and emperors chiefs, dukes, presidents, popes, & cetera, could only take their toys into their graves and not beyond we do not know for sure     although we may believe if immaterial possessions have a better fate yet even though we do not know what our final moment brings a thoughtful wrinkle on your brow looks always better than a bleak array of orphaned things
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Jun 9, 2016
Jun 9, 2016 at 2:51 PM UTC
beyond-1
Amerikeisha tapping out the drumbeat with her see through plastic mechanical pencil   Me sidewinding my way through highschool Dizzy Gillespie's  trumpet waking the souls that are buried in the lockers, Chick Corea and I are returning to forever The land where summer is the only season And daisy dukes are greatly appreciated, John Coltrane is helping me realize How beautiful girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes are, I've been dancing to Dave Brubeck since this morning And I can't get Maria out of my head I just picture Maria As this girl Feeling Pretty Oh so pretty I imagine if I saw her in the street I wouldn't double take But Take Five     Charlie Parker playing saxophone like It's as easy as brushing his teeth, Nat King Cole Serenading Hispanic women with his soothing tone Robert Glasper experimenting with his music Burning you brain like mentholated cough drops
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Nov 5, 2013
Nov 5, 2013 at 8:57 PM UTC
Human Jazz
Calender Girls Miss January, keeps me very warm, make me glad, that I was born. Miss February, covers me from snow, oh man, can she really blow. Miss March, knows her wrong from right, never had a ***** so **** tight. Miss April, is a famous **** star, she likes to take things a bit to far. Miss May, gives me an all day smile, all month long, we walk the mile. Miss June, looks good in Daisy Dukes, I'm waiting on the line of Bo's and Luke's. Miss July, blows me a birthday kiss, she likes to hold it while I **** Miss August, wears a bikini thong, then we smoke a big fat **** Miss September, wears a back to school skirt, not sure if she even owns a shirt. Miss October, likes to trick or treat, her body tastes oh so sweet. Miss November, lets me fill her turkey with stuffing, at first I thought she might be bluffing. Miss December, likes to sit on my lap, her sweet *** I like to slap. I love, I love, I love my calender girls, triplets with the youngest one in curls. I love my calender, that hangs on my wall, it makes my ***** stand so tall. Even though it's all my imagination, my train always leaves the station.
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Jan 7, 2014
Jan 7, 2014 at 8:25 PM UTC
Calender Girls
197 Morning—is the place for Dew— Corn—is made at Noon— After dinner light—for flowers— Dukes—for Setting Sun!
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Morning—is the place for Dew
8yrs young lo0000nnnnnnnnggggggggg thick  shiny  blue  black  hair Air Force Papa wanted a Wash N Wear He wanted mija* with Dorthy Hamill hair So I was ordered to March down the street to Emilias Holy Carport Emilia La Bautista Mexicana* She knew no english but she knew Jesus She'd cut your hair and save your soul That day i requested un "Dori Hamel" Cut She smiled and charismaticly said Amen! Te vas a ver muy bonita* Her holy * tijeras snipped my hair glided to the cement floor like feathers off angels wings She made me look right she made me look left and when i looked up... I HAD A MULLET my tears came down because of my Dukes of Hazzard crown and I marched home to Dixie
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Feb 4, 2011
Feb 4, 2011 at 7:32 PM UTC
My Crowning Glory
Relax. I know your instincts are screaming to fight. This is a mistake. You will only hurt yourself. Just relax. You are frightened, confused, and angry. This is only natural. You will tell yourself to not feel these things. This is a mistake. Feel them, own them. They are yours. It is only natural. You are being dragged backwards through a hedge. You say,"Stop it! The branches are tearing my shirt! This is my favorite shirt!" This is a mistake. **** your shirt. Tear it into bandanas, sell them on Etsy. Just buy more shirts. Pack of four. $9.99. Wal-Mart. Tell a stranger a story about the scars the hedge gave you. Maybe he'll trade you a shirt for a good story. But you say,"My pants! The hedge is covering my favorite pants in grass stains!" Stop that. This is a mistake. Cover your pants in new and interesting stains. Paint in them. Spill food on them. Comfort a dying animal, let it bleed on them. Do too much ******* **** yourself. Get bored, cut them into daisy dukes. Try wearing a skirt, a sarong, a loincloth, the wind. Calm down, they're just pants. "But what if I break the hedge! The Homeowner's Association will **** me!" This is also a mistake. **** the Homeowner's Association. You did not choose the hedge. The hedge did not choose you. And once you're on the other side, you won't to answer to them. No one will find you, and you don't have to come back. Unless you want to. But that is your decision. Yours and the hedge's, no one else. Remember that. "But who is dragging me through this hedge? What kind of hedge is it? Why is this happening to me?" These are the wrong questions. You are being dragged backwards to through a hedge. That is all that matters. Concern yourself only with what matters. Making it through. Landing on your feet, or barring that, getting back up. Seeing what's on the other side. So you ask,"what is on the other side? What if I hate it? What if it's a parking lot? What if it's all sticky? What if everything's on fire? What if it's just more hedges?" Relax. You're looking at it all wrong. Maybe your friends are all there. Maybe it is all sticky. Maybe it's a combination liquor store, ice-creamery, minigolf course, and you can pour whiskey on your face, and eat Rocky Road, and finally get a hole-in-one on that ******* windmill.? Maybe it's the way home. You're still looking at it wrong. This, too, is a mistake. You were dragged backwards through a hedge. Dragged. Backwards. And you made it. While you were worrying you didn't notice you already made it through. So now you're here, on the other side. Now it's your call. You can do as you wish. Watch the sunset. Or dive into a new hedge, maybe headfirst this time. Or walk home. Or make a new home. It's your choice. And really, who's going to stop you? Some puny ******* bush?
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Dec 13, 2014
Dec 13, 2014 at 9:38 PM UTC
notes on being dragged backwards through a hedge
Relax. I know your instincts are screaming to fight. This is a mistake. You will only hurt yourself. Just relax. You are frightened, confused, and angry. This is only natural. You will tell yourself to not feel these things. This is a mistake. Feel them, own them. They are yours. It is only natural. You are being dragged backwards through a hedge. You say,"Stop it! The branches are tearing my shirt! This is my favorite shirt!" This is a mistake. **** your shirt. Tear it into bandanas, sell them on Etsy. Just buy more shirts. Pack of four. $9.99. Wal-Mart. Tell a stranger a story about the scars the hedge gave you. Maybe he'll trade you a shirt for a good story. But you say,"My pants! The hedge is covering my favorite pants in grass stains!" Stop that. This is a mistake. Cover your pants in new and interesting stains. Paint in them. Spill food on them. Comfort a dying animal, let it bleed on them. Do too much ******* **** yourself. Get bored, cut them into daisy dukes. Try wearing a skirt, a sarong, a loincloth, the wind. Calm down, they're just pants. "But what if I break the hedge! The Homeowner's Association will **** me!" This is also a mistake. **** the Homeowner's Association. You did not choose the hedge. The hedge did not choose you. And once you're on the other side, you won't to answer to them. No one will find you, and you don't have to come back. Unless you want to. But that is your decision. Yours and the hedge's, no one else. Remember that. "But who is dragging me through this hedge? What kind of hedge is it? Why is this happening to me?" These are the wrong questions. You are being dragged backwards to through a hedge. That is all that matters. Concern yourself only with what matters. Making it through. Landing on your feet, or barring that, getting back up. Seeing what's on the other side. So you ask,"what is on the other side? What if I hate it? What if it's a parking lot? What if it's all sticky? What if everything's on fire? What if it's just more hedges?" Relax. You're looking at it all wrong. Maybe your friends are all there. Maybe it is all sticky. Maybe it's a combination liquor store, ice-creamery, minigolf course, and you can pour whiskey on your face, and eat Rocky Road, and finally get a hole-in-one on that ******* windmill.? Maybe it's the way home. You're still looking at it wrong. This, too, is a mistake. You were dragged backwards through a hedge. Dragged. Backwards. And you made it. While you were worrying you didn't notice you already made it through. So now you're here, on the other side. Now it's your call. You can do as you wish. Watch the sunset. Or dive into a new hedge, maybe headfirst this time. Or walk home. Or make a new home. It's your choice. And really, who's going to stop you? Some puny ******* bush?
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work, and work, night and day no sleep, no rest, no small getaway sick, and sick, and violently ill sick, still sick, pop a pill dream, a dream, a beach so clear dream, and dream, a sunbathed dear warm, so warm, so smooth to touch warm, so warm, so very much sunbathed beauty, in the sand sunbathed lover, take my hand warm, so warm, almost too much warm, and warm, i'm warm to touch fever, haze, and dream awake sick, so sick, more pills to take drowsy, dizzy, daisy dukes again, again, again she pukes sleepy, sick, and a sunbathed beauty this medicine is kind of fruity. . . .
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Dec 3, 2011
Dec 3, 2011 at 2:50 AM UTC
sleepy, sick, and a sunbathed beauty
1 "I've given up on giving up slowly." 2 "You say yes, I say no." 3 "When you're on a holiday, you can't find the words to say." 4 "I'm feeling **** and free." 5 "I can see our fingers are intertwined." 6 "Nice legs, daisy dukes..." 7 "You and I go hard at each other like we're going to war." 8 "Everybody's trying to get to me." 9 "Hey, babe, I got my eye on you." 10 "I am a little bit of loneliness, a little bit of disregard" 11 "Hey, girl, you know you drive me crazy." 12 "This is the story of a girl who cried a river and drowned the whole world." 13 "In the time of the chimpanzees, I was a monkey." 14 "Honestly, why are my clothes out on the street?" 15 "Oh, well imagine, as I'm pacing the pews in a church corridor....." 16 "The static comes in slow.... You can feel it grow." 17 "You promise me starry night skies..." 18 "Never win first place, I don't support the team." 19 "Tell me where our time went..." 20 "I dreamed I went missing, you were so scared."
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Sep 28, 2012
Sep 28, 2012 at 10:13 PM UTC
Mash Me Up
Roddy's Rooster, man! you couldn't   oust her Standing up there on his dunghill fair Announcing to the whole world, to All   everywhere My **** He's the greatest doodle doer O! that Roddy's Rooster. He don't need no booster, does   Roddy's Rooster He'd even go after the goose sir Don't you fouster with this Rooster You'd only lose sir Now vamoose sir. Very dapper and quite the scrapper Patrolling his perimeter Strutting around the farmyard pound Invariably, henhouse bound If you were to meet him It'd be "Put up your dukes sir Me! I'm Roddy's Rooster". With his tail feathers all fluffed up Like a feather duster And his chest all puffed out Quite the Dandy and always randy What a Suitor that Roddy's Rooster And O! what a Wooer, that wooey   doodler.                          I I He came a cropper though one day When he fell in the Hopper Now he's a good deal shorter And not half as cocky as before, Now he sits on his wall lamenting his   fall Thinking of the days when he used to   have a ball Has Lady Luck that Grand Old Duck   deserted him I wonder. Sad to see, now he's a bit gammy More Bandy than Dandy He still South's in the Summer But has doubts in the Winter, Now he likes to crow his woes and   lows away Climbing up onto his dunghill, he    greets the day But now in a high shrill falsetto   voice He sings  in a whole different way " I've been round the Ringer but I'm   still quite a Dinger **** a Doodley Doo" Now... now he's a ****** Blues singer! O! that Roddy's Rooster. Roddy's Rooster Yeeaahh!
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Mar 17, 2020
Mar 17, 2020 at 10:29 AM UTC
Roddy's Rooster
Roddy's Rooster, man! you couldn't   oust her Standing up there on his dunghill fair Announcing to the whole world, to All   everywhere My **** He's the greatest doodle doer O! that Roddy's Rooster. He don't need no booster, does   Roddy's Rooster He'd even go after the goose sir Don't you fouster with this Rooster You'd only lose sir Now vamoose sir. Very dapper and quite the scrapper Patrolling his perimeter Strutting around the farmyard pound Invariably, henhouse bound If you were to meet him It'd be "Put up your dukes sir Me! I'm Roddy's Rooster". With his tail feathers all fluffed up Like a feather duster And his chest all puffed out Quite the Dandy and always randy What a Suitor that Roddy's Rooster And O! what a Wooer, that wooey   doodler.                          I I He came a cropper though one day When he fell in the Hopper Now he's a good deal shorter And not half as cocky as before, Now he sits on his wall lamenting his   fall Thinking of the days when he used to   have a ball Has Lady Luck that Grand Old Duck   deserted him I wonder. Sad to see, now he's a bit gammy More Bandy than Dandy He still South's in the Summer But has doubts in the Winter, Now he likes to crow his woes and   lows away Climbing up onto his dunghill, he    greets the day But now in a high shrill falsetto   voice He sings  in a whole different way " I've been round the Ringer but I'm   still quite a Dinger **** a Doodley Doo" Now... now he's a ****** Blues singer! O! that Roddy's Rooster. Roddy's Rooster Yeeaahh!
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I'm not a manufactured cowboy Don't you dare call me one I'm just a simple man A tattooed hellbilly from a small Illinois town I know of loss, sorrow and woe And I don't give a **** about tailgates or daisy dukes Too many folks talk too much Throwing words around, saying they're outlaws You ain't no outlaw and that is plain as day There's many dues that you haven't paid Country radio all sounds the same Not one true, blue word in anything they say When did so many people lose their soul Become cookie cutter, and not care anymore I miss the sound of real guitars and fiddles being played Not interested in the trash that's get peddled these days I'm not turning coat, not softening my stance I'm a real **** hellbilly, and real **** proud
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Oct 16, 2014
Oct 16, 2014 at 8:02 PM UTC
Hellbilly
Hey there, are you new here? So how come we never met? Me, I'm always late for work No matter which alarm I set So tell me whats your name? I'm Heloise, sorry, you go first. After Heloise the writer, hey you were close, could have been worse. I'm soaked I wasn't thinking, we were gonna get some rain. And in the rush to get the bus, I dropped my fare right down the drain. You look like you walked miles. You must be soaked through to the skin. I am a waitress at Dukes Diner. You should try us, come on in. So how come I haven't seen you, Are we talking the same place? Cos I'm sure I would remember, such a handsome face. Say what time is it you come in? Because I get a break at two. I could come and join you in the park, if thats ok with you? How about tomorrow? Are sure that its ok? I dont want to be too pushy, If its not ok just say. Ok so now I'm blushing. Are you sure that you dont mind? You are? I know, I'm rushing, But it works the best I find.
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Apr 28, 2010
Apr 28, 2010 at 7:07 PM UTC
What she said.