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Fine Is An Ugly Word

Submitted by clarahendersontsa on Tue, 01/22/2013 - 10:29pm

It’s sad when you don’t feel special no more.
Makes your thoughts all jumbled
And your smile all sore.
Makes that mask you’ve been wearing
Feel just like your skin
And I’m not sure I like
This fake skin that I’m in.

And I’m not sure I like all these cellophane people
With their looking-glass thoughts
And their dirtied up steeples
Where they pray to get by for just one little day
Where they tidy up numbers, all wasting away

With their dreams and ambitions all kept in a drawer
All locked up and socked up till they don’t shine no more.

I don’t wanna get by, I don’t wanna be fine!
Like the cellophane people who don’t cross the line
From their gray little quarters to their dull little lives
With their prim little daughters and their prim little wives.

So I wanna be messy and make people frown!
Well, its better than having it all upside down
In a neat little smile, in its sad little way
And I’m gonna be someone who’s special
Someday.

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doug.demaio's picture

I feel like the love button

Submitted by doug.demaio on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 5:51pm.

I feel like the love button isn't conveying how much I love this.

If you want to view paradise, simply look around, and you will. Anything you want to... do it. Want to change the world? There's nothing to it.

 

Haha thank you so much!

Submitted by clarahendersontsa on Thu, 01/24/2013 - 6:17pm.

Haha thank you so much!

Shea_Savage's picture

Your writing is actually

Submitted by Shea_Savage on Thu, 01/24/2013 - 6:22pm.

Your writing is actually awesome, and I feel like I knew after reading the first two lines that it would be... I wish I could write poetry like you!

Wow thank you! Thats an

Submitted by clarahendersontsa on Thu, 01/24/2013 - 6:24pm.

Wow thank you! Thats an awesome compliment, and I bet you are a very talented writer. I'll definately check out some of your work :)

LNSB's picture

Nicee job! 

Submitted by LNSB on Fri, 01/25/2013 - 11:20pm.

Nicee job! 

doug.demaio's picture

I shared this one on my

Submitted by doug.demaio on Mon, 01/28/2013 - 10:22am.

I shared this one on my facebook page and one of my friends, who writes for the UVM Cynic newspaper, would like to tell you that this poem is "on fire, especially the ending"

If you want to view paradise, simply look around, and you will. Anything you want to... do it. Want to change the world? There's nothing to it.

 

That's awesome! Oh, and I'm

Submitted by clarahendersontsa on Mon, 01/28/2013 - 1:50pm.

That's awesome! Oh, and I'm working on recording it now :)