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This poem it chased me all over town, when it finally caught me up I had to write it down

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Hey hey hey did you hear the news
Poet has no laces in his shoes
Could it be that he's got the blues
or is it that he's been drinking booze?
no, no, no he just went on a PD cruise
and came back happy, fast and loose!

I think his posts got lots of views
Now he's quirkier than Howard Hughes
and he wears no laces in his shoes!

 

 

 

 written in 2009...
I’m Still, Joseph McEleavy

No matter how many little indignities, diminishments and disappointments

My Life has thrown at me

I’m still Here

Sometimes giving up Sometimes standing up

And though My Life seems to have become an ever failing effort to avoid embarrassment

I am still Joyous Optimism

Because no matter that my body freezes so that I cannot move.

Shakes so that I cannot do

Or takes an hour to cook a ten minute pizza

I’m still Here

No matter that the simplest tasks defeat me

That I seem to have lost my grace, wit and spontaneity

That I sometimes weep like a jilted bride

That I forget relative importance easily, and relearn painfully

No matter that I stumble like a drunk, act like a coward

Or that I sometimes just want to die, to be done

I’m still Here

Fighting to celebrate

My Life

Start strong finish stronger, Yeah Baby!

 

 

7613….12.45 pm

I tumbled off the world tonight

You look on and it’s not right

You desert me in this deepest plight

Then you picked the petals off my rose

and left me with the thorns

I swim beside you, an armless fish, in a barrel, going in circles

My fears alight on your loss of control

As all my life savings go up in smoke

I think that you have had enough

The road has gotten a little rough