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Run away and don`t turn back until your screams upset the wildlife

by Sparrow_splitter 

Posted: 19 December 2003
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I would run away,
but I got no place to go.
Live on a beach,
or maybe in a cave.
Eating bats,
sleeping on the sand.
But of these things,
I know nothing.
So where would I go?

I would kill myself,
but I don't know how.
I ain't got a knife,
and no hose for the car.
Got no pills,
and I can't tie a noose.

Some of these things,
I'd probably do.
If I knew how,
or bothered to learn.
Maybe?






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Bobo at 17:09 on 19 December 2003  Report this post
Sparrow - a powerful straight-talking poem. We all look to alternative lives / ways of being / ways of not being - when the here and the now is what we should truly focus on.

BoBo X

Ps should it be ' or bothered TO learn'?
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Sparrow_splitter at 17:27 on 19 December 2003  Report this post
Thanks BoBo, corrected it now.
I was a bit drunk when I wrote this so I wasn't sure if it worked. That probably explains the deranged title too.
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Fearless at 17:55 on 19 December 2003  Report this post
Keep on drinking brother, if it stimulates you to write like this.

Fearless
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dr_mandrill at 12:06 on 20 December 2003  Report this post
Yeah, stick with the booze and see where it takes you, dude.

Probably to the toilet.



dm

ps- great title. If all poems had titles as good as this, then poetry would be the new rock n roll. No- having sex with poets would be the new rock n roll.
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Fearless at 22:24 on 21 December 2003  Report this post
Hang on - as poets we should be prostituting ourselves, via our lyrics, in some hostelry...what's stopping us, apart from puke stains on our garments and B.O.?

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