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“When I was 14,
I would sit up
in my room
and write
till my eyes
would bleed.”
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~ Quincy Jones
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Elfje: (Cinquain)
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quarantine
Italian quarantina
separated from others
period of forty days
isolation
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Tanka: 5-7-5, 7-7
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kindness is respect
happiness is a big smile
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Poem:
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selfish and self-centered to the core
I want what I want, more, more, more
arrogant, egotistical, it all is a big show
what is really me I don’t want you to know
fear says you would never like the real me
I’ll pretend to be exactly what you want to see
a sickness that indeed robs the soul
the delusion is that I possess self-control
to please you I am either needy or greedy
to the pristine wall I am the graffiti
a mind altering substance was my escape
I’m the super hero without the cape
I ignored a thousand God given signs
ego called it art when I colored outside the lines
I was finally saved, in spite of myself
new directions delivered from a bookshelf
a small pocket booklet of 164 pages
written by 100 of the very first sages
directions for living with a backward brain
a prescription for easing the emotional pain
willing to change is how it works
truths told by men who once were jerks
learning to love and live with others
becoming a part of a band of brothers
finding a Higher Power, his praises to sing
choosing to do the next right thing
today it is no longer me, me, me
I follow a program that begins with we
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ME and the Boss
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ME and the Boss Poetry 