WAIT A MINUTE

So, I was thinking,

probably my first mistake,

about one of those stupid

questions that keep popping

up, but which do nothing to

put food on the table.

What if I never die?

What if I never lived?

What if I am some kind of

consciousness bubble with

nothing but time on my

imaginary hands?

What if I am just this thought

pocket of imagination floating

around in my imaginary home

making everything up so I don’t

die of boredom?

If so, I must surely be insane

and need to imagine a personal

helper named...err, Freud

to bring me back down to

this place I’ll call... um,

the Earth.

Okay, that didn’t work out

so well, he kept wanting me

to remember my “mom.”

whatever that was…

I’ve been doing this so long,

it seems like an “eternity”

one more concept I don’t have

any time for. 

Reviews

[ETERNITY]

I love your reasoning, "which do nothing to put food on the table" ...typical thinking.

The rest is the thinking of a child, a boy in a man's body...I just love it. (I've had three sons)

Vol, you are the epitomy of what makes a poet...Did I say that correctly? Anyway, I just love this.

[Vol]

Thank you, Forever!
SO, you see? I've spent much of my life, much of my energy, a lot of my thinking about poetics, and haven't got a single farthing to show for it... It does seem to impress chicks, sometimes, though.
Vol

[K. Louis]

I like how you poke fun at the idea of contemplating life's big mysteries while also acknowledging the absurdity of it all.

[Lorry]

And what if all of that were true and you are the only one who didn't get the memo and have been bouncing around aimlessly since the year dot, when all you had to do was move your left ankle like you are drawing a number 6 in the air while trying to draw a circle in an anti clockwise motion with your right!
Ps...don't try too hard though because it's one of those quirks of being a human that no one can do.
Now, any chance you could use one of your pointy upper leg things to show me what direction Scotland's at please!
We are where? Is this where Dorothy woke up when she vis I Ted Oz? 😃

[Vol]

Lorry,
You know how they say "S**t happens?"
Well, I posted this this morning and about ten minutes later, I found out I have no water. Again... Guy's coming out tomorrow...

[Lorry]

Jesus Vol. Did you get hexed lately? Sympathies my friend. I bet you were just going for a shower when you found out!
Reason I sat that is because we had a power cut recently while I was in the shower and I don't mind tell you when that water touched me I screamed like a four year old girl would if her parents told her that she can't go because she's naughty so they are taking all her sisters to McDonald's instead!
Worst of it was I had to rinse off a very delicate part of myself (with two globular things inside it) as I was just soaping myself up.
Have you ever screamed hypersonically before? No sound comes out but I heard the flutter of many a wing as the animal kingdom freaked out!
😃

[Vol]

Well, there actually ARE benefits to living further south. Those3 Ice baths some folks brag about are just a do-it-yourself version of transition surgery, punctuated by the very screams you describe...

[Lorry]

We don't need ice baths here. We all remember holidays on the easy coast, where mothers forced you into the water, which is the north bloody sea!
You can hear warnings from the offshore oil rigs warning staff to wear their life vests at all times, as you wouldn't last 2 minutes if you fell in, but on the beach there are mothers shouting at you " go on you big Jessie!"
To paint a more vivid picture, take a left turn and that is the Arctic ocean!
You never forget that inaudible scream as that first wave laps at your thigh and catches your undercarriage for the first time when wave kisses scrotum!
It might be inaudible, but every animal in the kingdom stops what its doing and says in unison "What the f**k wants that! 😃

[Vol]

You know, Lorry, I think we share a lot of real wisdom on here, we ought to charge admission and invite commentary... WE could get FAMOUS and make a Bil... no, a GAZILLION dollars! Hold on... I want one more toke...

[Lorry]

Don't smoke any more or you'll forget that thing you just said.... what was it again?
😃

[Vol]

huh? Are you (puff puff, cough, cough, cough) talking to me?

[Lorry]

What? When? Who? 😃