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Pointless Thoughts
Posted by: Scarification Infestation (---.sprint.ca)
Date: May 17, 2002 03:07PM

Hello I'm new here... Since Poesie.com started charging to use their services, I've been looking for a new place to post so... Comments are always appreciated grinning smiley

Pointless Thoughts - May 16/02

A lack of inspiration
But wasn't it all lies?
A lack of classification
And you wonder how time flies
Money in your pocket
Coffee cup in hand
Life's a time-bomb rocket
The ostremu sticks his head in the sand
And shivers are sent down my spine
While I chew my spearmint gum
And everything seems to be fine
So I stick up my thumb
Spiderman's the new hit
Because Superman died
And the X-men don't fit
Because Batman cried
But isn't there always a villian to fight
And a beautiful woman to save?
In the end nothing's right
Because the Americans aren't so brave*
And I'm going to end this pointless rant
On the note of "I feel like poo"
So don't tell me what you can and can't
Otherwise I'm going to have to shoot you

Sidenote: *I'm sorry if I've offended anyone with the "Americans aren't so brave" but I'm sick of hearing about 9/11, and I live in Canada... I should be hearing stuff about Canadians, not Americans. Plus one of my best friends is an American and he's being sent to Boot Camp because he's part of the U.S. Navy and I think it's completely stupid.

~B~

I like to rhyme a lot... that's my main talent in poetry


Re: Pointless Thoughts
Posted by: Hugh Clary (---.sdsl.cais.net)
Date: May 17, 2002 03:44PM


Oh, yeah? Gimme a rhyme for chimney. Oops, you live in Canada. Try Regina, then.


Re: Pointless Thoughts
Posted by: Tiff (---.rmt.net.pitt.edu)
Date: May 31, 2002 02:03AM

You are gay, eh?


Re: Pointless Thoughts
Posted by: JP (---.essex1.com)
Date: May 31, 2002 12:23PM

Your title was quite apt.


Re: Pointless Thoughts
Posted by: Glenda (---.dallas-02rh16rt-tx.dial-access.att.net)
Date: May 31, 2002 02:02PM

I'm not offended by the "Americans aren't so brave" line, but I am a little put off with the rhyming of you and poo. Glad to know that is your main talent.


Re: Pointless Thoughts
Posted by: albert meyburgh (---.bc.hsia.telus.net)
Date: June 03, 2002 11:49PM

best poem i've read all day ! haha -- no seriously though, those would make really good lyrics ... with a few small changes

LOVE YOU ALL! cuz u all love me =)
-apm


Re: Pointless Thoughts
Posted by: Lady of the Night (---.unet.maine.edu)
Date: June 04, 2002 10:04AM

Sacrification Infestation -

I thought this poem was great! An original work, and very very interesting. I really really really enjoyed this--more than I thought I would. It's very very cool grinning smiley

As far as your comment about Americans? AMEN! I'm an American, and I certainly don't take offense at your comment. I, too, am SICK of hearing about 9/11. I was sick of hearing it by the end of the week to be honest. Now, don't get me wrong--I am sorry it happened, and I do feel bad for the friends and families of victims, but...come on, guys. It was bound to happen. Everyone is in such major shock about this incident, but think of the other countries who have been attacked and are still in war..think of Israel attacking Palestine when the Palestinians have no real weaponry, and they're left to throw rocks at the enemy. AMERICA IS NOT INVICIBLE. NO COUNTRY IS.

I had to draw a political cartoon for a US History assignment, and I chose to draw it about 9/11. The first box shows a man standing in front of a faded drawing of the US, which is colored in the faded red-white-and-blue of the flag. The man is wearing a shirt that says "I AM BUSH." He is angry and points eastward saying "He stole my playmoney!" (After all, that's all money is, especially in the US of A's government. It's sucked up from our workers in their taxes, and then spent on the most ridiculous of things, instead of feeding our hungry, or raising Minimum Wage, or providing homes for people, or even bettering our schools.) The second box shows a first-grade classroom. The teacher says "Class, somebody bombed the WTC today..." and the kids all chime together in saying "So?" The third box shows Bush over in Afghanistan, bringing a large sledgehammer down on the head of a baby, laughing. The fourth box simply says "America the Proud: What was once their strength has become their weakness. THE MIGHTY WILL FALL." Under the whole cartoon, I put a caption that says "Children know no hatred until they are taught by the ones they love."

Guys, I remember on 9/11 and we were going home on the bus. All the high schoolers (except myself) were telling the elementary schoolers to quiet down because something terrible had happened and they wanted to hear the radio. The kids chimed in with "Oh! Oh I know what you're talking about! There was lice at school today!" Lice? Lice was the worst fear of the children on the worst day of American History. Wonder why? Because as Confucious taught, people are born good and taught evil. There's a REASON that you can't blame a baby for pulling the cat's tail or yanking her big sister's hair. THEY DON'T KNOW ANY BETTER. And until this entire chaos that America and the rest of the world was thrown into, they knew nothing of Palestine or Afghanistan or any other Middle Eastern country. Oh, but they do now! What do they know? That they're bad. Not to be trusted. Destructive. Heartless. Blood-thirsty murderers.

What does the Statue of Liberty say? I'm not entirely sure, but it says something like "Give me your tired, your weak, your hungry" or something like that. Yet, every single Middle Eastern man or woman is given a pat-down (sometimes much, much more, in the most humiliating fashions) before boarding an airplane (As if they're spending all their money protecting airplanes! What if bin Laden's next move is to attack the war ships?).

United we stand. Divided we fall. America the Brave. The Land of Freedom. What a bunch of false lies and facades! The absolute HUBRIS of the red-white-and-blue American is sickening. Hubris is excessive pride, and excessive pride is blind and naive. Don't believe me? Read the Theban Plays about King Oedipus (aka Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles.

I'd apologize for rambling as I usually do, but...I feel very very strongly about this subject. I've PLENTY more to say, but...lol. I'll end this now.

Faithfully,
Lady of the Night


Re: Pointless Thoughts
Posted by: confusing mind (---.ed.co.sanmateo.ca.us)
Date: June 07, 2002 04:14PM

very interesting. . .I love your talent for rhyming, and i admire your way of putting nonsencical ravings of a madman into verse

sincerely yours
confusing mind


Re: Pointless Thoughts
Posted by: Scarification Infestation (---.sprint.ca)
Date: June 10, 2002 10:34PM

Vagina.. Hrhr you so funny ;P
~B~


Re: Pointless Thoughts
Posted by: Scarification Infestation (---.sprint.ca)
Date: June 10, 2002 10:35PM

What does that have to do with anything?? And I'm not gay, i'm bi-curious.
~B~


Re: Pointless Thoughts
Posted by: Scarification Infestation (---.sprint.ca)
Date: June 10, 2002 10:36PM

Wow - hugeass reply! Well, you seem to have a lot to say... And seem interesting...!!! Do you have ICQ??
~B~


Re: Pointless Thoughts
Posted by: Scarification Infestation (---.sprint.ca)
Date: June 10, 2002 10:38PM

Why, thank you ;D
~B~


Re: Pointless Thoughts
Posted by: Lady of the Night (---.unet.maine.edu)
Date: June 11, 2002 09:20AM




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