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Live Life Out Loud!

live life out loud
unless you're a politician
or a corporate muckety-muck
or just shy
and even if you are just shy
find a way to live out loud
like
pissing your name in the snow
or
driving topless
on a road trip
nips to the wind

because life is good that way
and people will assume and judge
because we are all imperfect
and imperfect and good
go together
like on dates and stuff
and they hook up
and do wild things
and regret is always there
like a somber judge
with a statute to be read
listen intently
then go back to being
imperfect and good
and hook up and booze
and fall in love and get up
live out loud
and let those
that assume and judge
do their thing
unless you are a politician
or a corporate muckety muck
or you have to tap dance
in bathroom stalls for sex

write with your
imperfect hand
paint with
your crooked teeth
or sing
you one note wonder!
even though I hate bad singing
fuck me sing louder
dance without ever
stepping on
the beat
blog your wonderful
sorry life
because you can

and when you do this
you will notice
even more imperfection
and that some of us
are assholes
and greedy bastards
and maybe this is the part
where I am finally
describing you

and when you honestly
write sing dance
paint photograph
you will notice
even more goodness
and imperfection
and that people care
about your ass
and it is your job
to be imperfect and good
and to love
even the assholes and
greedy bastards
and George W. Bush
has made this exceptionally
challenging for me

So permission granted
to live out loud
even though
we think no one
will get us
And love us
Like we are, imperfect and good.
can I borrow a jump ticket real quick?

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Misty eyes and memories
goals wished instead of formed
I cry cherry-colored time
and wait for it to pass

to merry tulips
sniffing sweet blue sky blossoms
and dizzy salamanders agrip
to bloodwine stems of needy chance

waiting for faeries waiting
with watermelon smiles
dripping mango wings
and lips brushed with gladness
for moments relished in pickled cucumbers
waiting for cherry-colored time to pass

can I borrow a jump ticket real quick?

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So, there I was with my fingertip hanging by a thread and a make-shift bandage of carpet pad and duct tape the only thing holding the whole thing together. It hurt just a bit, so I decided to do a seedy drug deal and buy these vicoden from a seedy person that a…well… seedy friend of mine knows. I got five at $2 a piece figuring that should last a few days. I'm not a total wimp, and my tolerance is really low to pain meds.
The very first night, it hurt so bad, I said screw it and took a whole one. I was ready for my bedtime ritual of reading some and going nighty-night, but first I had to have a snack (apparently pain pills give me the munchies...bad!). I went to the freezer, pulled out the NY cherry ice cream, and decided there wasn't really enough left to bother with a bowl. I took what was left of the half gallon directly to my bedroom (I can always put back what I don't eat...), set my reading light, laid the carton on my chest, and dug into a lovely big-spoon mouth full of scrumptiousness!
Next thing I knew, it was morning.
When you get done with the visual of cherries stuck hither and yon, and melted ice cream all over my sheets, with me tossing and turning on it all night, just remember, I also have two dogs.
I still can't find the spoon...

can I borrow a jump ticket real quick?

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So, there I was with my fingertip hanging by a thread and a make-shift bandage of carpet pad and duct tape the only thing holding the whole thing together. It hurt just a bit, so I decided to do a seedy drug deal and buy these vicoden from a seedy person that a…well… seedy friend of mine knows. I got five at $2 a piece figuring that should last a few days. I'm not a total wimp, and my tolerance is really low to pain meds.
The very first night, it hurt so bad, I said screw it and took a whole one. I was ready for my bedtime ritual of reading some and going nighty-night, but first I had to have a snack (apparently pain pills give me the munchies...bad!). I went to the freezer, pulled out the NY cherry ice cream, and decided there wasn't really enough left to bother with a bowl. I took what was left of the half gallon directly to my bedroom (I can always put back what I don't eat...), set my reading light, laid the carton on my chest, and dug into a lovely big-spoon mouth full of scrumptiousness!
Next thing I knew, it was morning.
When you get done with the visual of cherries stuck hither and yon, and melted ice cream all over my sheets, with me tossing and turning on it all night, just remember, I also have two dogs.
I still can't find the spoon...



That's damn funny.
Did you check for the spoon under the pillow?
“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes (Polish writer, poet and satirist 1906-1966)

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"Oh God, let me get through this jump without fucking up, and if somebody else fucks up and takes me out, let me come back as a ghost and chase his sorry ass all over the place!" :D

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

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I also have two dogs.
I still can't find the spoon...



How big are the dogs?

Might wanna check them for a few days to see if they ate it while eating the ice cream.

Hopefully if they did it will pass on through.
Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting
If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.

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Very nice.
But way too long for jump run.
I like my short version:

"Oh God, please don't let me fuck this up!"



Also known as Shepard's Prayer . . . as in Alan B. Shepard and said while sitting atop an ICBM waiting to be the first American launched into space.
quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

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Very nice.
But way too long for jump run.
I like my short version:

"Oh God, please don't let me fuck this up!"



Also known as Shepard's Prayer . . . as in Alan B. Shepard and said while sitting atop an ICBM waiting to be the first American launched into space.


Hi, Boring, I know you aren't talking about my poem, so alan shepard must have said "Oh God, Please don't let me fuck this up!,: right?? Did he call his poem "shepard's prayer?" I'm confused...I just want to be clear that you were not insinuating that I plagiarized my own poem.:|
can I borrow a jump ticket real quick?

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"Oh God, let me get through this jump without fucking up, and if somebody else fucks up and takes me out, let me come back as a ghost and chase his sorry ass all over the place!" :D



...and may my aim be true towards my rigger's car!


Chuck

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Blue-Eyed Sky

I thought it was a blizzard, but I was wrong.
I didn't know then that they were the teardrops of Angels,
frozen prisms of colorful laughter,
the ultimate expression of joy for she who had joined them.

I thought it was a flock of geese finally signaling the return of spring,
but I was wrong.
It was the cumulative wing of God
opening and embracing His child
welcoming her home.

I thought it was the wind blowing so fiercely,
but I was wrong.
It was a sigh of perfect peace.

I wondered today why the sky was so blue
I thought it was the fickle way of nature, but I was wrong.
It was Sue's eyes opening wide and looking down on us with a purer love.
(see ya after awhile, sis)
can I borrow a jump ticket real quick?

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I always thought the official version was:
"Please God, don't let me fuck this up...FIRST!"

And I always thought it was "don't let me fuck it up on video

Wendy P.
There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

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