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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

REINCARNATION


Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads--d'Verse Poets Pub




Don't want to be no baby again

Don't want to be a cranky little
poop factory
lettin' poor ol' mom & dad
hear about it at all times
of the day and night
what a healthy set of lungs!




Keepin' the diaper makers
rollin' in dough while I'm
rollin' in my own...

OH
don't want to think about it 
I will have none of this
do you hear me?

HEY
quit scrubbin' my little thingy
all the time
ain't  a person got any privacy
in this joint? 

Then later in my high chair
picking up my bowl of oatmeal
and dumping it over my head

And going back to school
OH PLEASE 
not SCHOOL again
I already know how to read and write
damn you
just can't seem to remember how that works now
but can't you see I'm a poet
by that wild and desperate look in my eye?
just give me the benefit of the doubt
"Teach"

OH NO
get those math problems away from me!

I can put two and two
together
and I know what you're up to
gonna make me a productive
member of society
observing all the rules
 fitting in 
and going with the flow
just to be like all the rest
who don't want to know

OH 
Jesus
don't want to be no baby
again 
baby
but the wheel turns 
round and round
so probably gonna be
yeah
probably gonna be

Shit

29 comments:

  1. Oy, you have totally FREAKED ME OUT. This is fantastic, kiddo, but hits close to home. Not there yet, but the tower is definitely leaning that way.....cackle.

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  2. ha. we will always be learning...luckily not math problems...lol..and diapers...oy i was so glad when my kids were done with that...i'd rather not have to scrub the thingy....

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  3. SHERRY: Maybe we shouldn't complain about our lives so much...look what we have to look forward to!

    BRIAN: One time in school at show and tell I demonstrated how to change a diaper. LUCKILY, I've never had to do it for real.

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  4. lordy, let's steer clear of this scenario for a loooonnnnggg time... okay, let's steer clear entirely!

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  5. MARIAN: There's the detour sign up ahead...let's go for it!

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  6. MAGYAR: Ask not for whom the school bell tolls...

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  7. I will not go quietly into the night.

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  8. MAGGIE JEAN: You may get cited for disturbing the peace, but what the hey.

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  9. Maybe after this one it's time to jump into a different dimension.

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  10. 2000SUBABU: Hope it works...spinning round and round on this wheel has gotten me awfully dizzy!

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  11. Well, Tim..much truth in this. Couldn't wait to finish school, now I'm a teacher.. guess nappies are waiting for me after retirement and I'll wonder exactly what direction my life took.

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  12. I would say ' rollin on the floor laughing,' but the associations here with rolling are not propitious. Loved it, Timo--I just hope I don't have to be a baby again *before* I'm reincarnated.

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  13. KERRY: We will look back fondly...or not...depending on whether we have any memory left!

    HEDGEWITCH: I hear ya. Starting out wearing diapers...ending up wearing diapers...geez, where does it end?

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  14. Tim! I certainly intend to be shit. I'm at my goal, actually, already. Push me into traffic if I ever get to be a burden and let CalTrans clean me up. ~

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  15. Yes, shit...I don't want to be a baby again....this has me giggling

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  16. GRAPELING: Now that's a crappy attitude...LOL

    SUSIE:The word works on many levels in this case.

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  17. there is some great lines in here... ones that make you chuckle but think as well...

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  18. You certainly don't make it attractive. Do you know the song, little boxes, it's one of my favourites?

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  19. King Baby's court is a mockery, a misrule, a mayhem ... and it seems, in this long education of lives, we're constantly become freshmen again. A hoot.

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  20. Hilarious Tim! It's not easy to break into this humorous stance unless one has that talent. And you are blessed with it!

    Hank

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  21. ROBERT: Thanks for stopping by!

    PEALOGIC: I know that song...little boxes made of ticky-tacky?

    BLUEORAN: Freshmen...maybe that's why life is like one long hazing ritual.

    KAYKUALA: Much appreciated!

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  22. The wheel can be a bit ironic at times. We all know that the cutesy baby does have another side, the back side. A total fun wail of a poem.

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  23. I enjoyed this.. made me laugh.. though when I think of turning into that baby again.. oy.. not so funny.. but I'll smile about it anyway through your poem.

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  24. Very well done, enjoyed it, not sure it says a lot to support the idea of reincarnation though.....

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  25. I love this. To be helpless whether young or old and to have to go through it all again. Oh no!

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  26. GEMMA: Dat was funny.

    STEPH: Appreciate the visit.

    MICHAELT: No...it surely doesn't!

    JOANNA: Thanks...I'll add another "hah" and we'll have "ha hah."

    JENNY: Let's not think about it. Got any beer?

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