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living in the shadow of another
By theBAC
(or facing the light and casting your own)
take all these things from me
the images and phrases
caught like a crook
in my memory
destroy all the stuff i know
the trivia and facts
bits of info between the cracks
i wanna watch these things go
fed up with walking
in these borrowed shoes
knowing what i do
because i have nothing else
i wanna be myself
erase the celebrities names from my mind
and the movie mistakes i find
i don’t want to remember every detail
every scent
every feel
burn off my memorizational juices
like excess oil in the fields
take all these things from me
what i was before today
replace my mind with the brain of dipshit
i wanna experience the bliss of ignorance
let me sleep an entire night through
without poems, stories, unfilmed movies
showing in my head
i don’t wanna worry about my friends
stress over a job
erase it all so i can be stupid
but free
i want to be an unjealous lover
and live my life
as simple
as a cake album cover
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Copyright 2004 Brett Alan Coker
Published on Friday, March 19, 2004.
Filed under:
"Poetry"
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A former member wrote:
I happen to agree with Urbie (I can call you that, cant I?). ignorance is only bliss because when ignorant, you obviously don't know any better. The root word of ignorant is ignore; i'd rather pay attention to what's going on...
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A former member wrote:
and be prepared for anything to come my way. ignorant people are sheep, or sheeple. I would step in front of a bus before I followed the beliefs of another. but yes, this was an excellent poem, in it's own way ;)
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A former member wrote:
You just described my roommate. I don't think he ever paved a road of self discovery. You don't want to be that person, it's fucking irritating to witness. Someone with no soul, sense of theirself, style of their own.
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A former member wrote:
They fuckin borrow everything from everyone and are never truly an original soul. This was a great write though. ~Ship!
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On Saturday, March 20, 2004, yslehc
(334)
wrote:
ahh yes, doesnt everybody want that?.. awsome write hehe i love it
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On Saturday, March 20, 2004, Bella Butchery
(724) wrote:
wowsers, i really like "i wanna experience the bliss of ignorance" for some reason that really hit home for me. nice write
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