I'd choose a different name than...

I have been accussed of being everyone on this site I think at one time or the other and I have now been called a posuer, (more than one indentity on WC). Unfortunately I am only me, just Jack.

I’d choose a different name than…

 

 

Can you tell me who I’d be

If like you say, I am not me

I see myself most everyday

With still the same face on display

 

My picture on this site is real

I have no secrets to conceal

Even as the insults mount

You’ll never find a closed account

 

You think I sometimes go by Red

Or Frieda, that is what you said

John McFadyen, there’s a name

Though I am not one and the same

 

Rita, Angel, Icelandicblue

You point the finger, say, “They’re you”

So many people I could be

But sad to say I’m only me

 

I think you’ll find, I am a man

Not Holly Mason, Carolann

Noodlehead or Lily Mae

Or any other name you say

 

Keith or Sami, Thomas too

And now there’s Dean, that’s something new

Eglantine, oh yes Marie

None of these fine folks are me

 

Tammy, Kristin, Elisa L.

Makes me wonder, what the hell

All fine poets, I must say

Veronica,  and Girl Friday

 

Que Sera Sera, Constance Payne

Still you’ll find Jack is my name

Angi, Astro, Rhythm and Blues

They’re not me, perhaps they’re you

 

Aurora, Ken or David Scott

You say they’re me, I say they’re not

Then there’s Baby Ricochet

Still not me, you’ll hear me say

 

I Have a Voice, Kimmer, Quill

Keely Jane, now Doug or Jill

Insanity, Boy of the Red

Jacob's name I think you've said

 

Though everyone you seem to name

Are all my friends here just the same

Robbie, Emma, Dhaye and Rose

Add more names, my friend list grows

 

So let me say in words so true

I’m only me, I am not you

And if I was (said with a grin)

I’d choose a different name than…

 

 

Author's Note

Some humor to respond to the constant accusations. All in fun my friends.

Thank you for reading

Captcha - busybody

Reviews

[Angel]

I do the prayers, Jack does the romance. Obviously he is me...or I am him...or we are Rita...or Jacob is really Red, or the Stapler slipped into the Noodlehead, and we have Pickles to go, or else the Quill Ricochet off of the Baby, and Jack was a Girl Friday, and dig them Rythm and Blues...but...um...and...but...
Oh, I can't keep it all straight!!!!!
I am he and he is me and we are he and we are altogether...koo koo ka choo...
Jack is the Walrus!!!

See, I knew I could figure it all out... Brilliant piece, Jack...erm...OH I GIVE UP!!!!!!!!

[Frieda P]

Literally laughing my arse off here!!

[Angel]

Oh, don't do that...what will you sit on?

[Jack...]

I hope you had fun on your Magical Mystery Tour, Angel. Everyone knows I am Stu Sutcliffe...way to rub it in. Thanks so much my dear friend.

[Frieda P]

They think I've totally lost it downstairs, what could possibly be so funny Tara asks me? hahaha

[Jack...]

You just tell Tara that she is me, she will understand

[Frieda P]

I think your dance card is full just Jack, you couldn't possibly take on another identity.

[Jack...]

It's just a four letter, two syllable indentity...nothing for an expert like me.

[Angel]

Roll up...roll up for the Mystery Tour...

[Jack...]

Ok, just tell Tara I said, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn"

The Magical Mystery Tour is coming to take you away.

[Frieda P]

She has the giggles now, just from watching me laugh ;-P

[Ravyne Hawke]

And I like you just fine as Jack.. although, I have called you Steve a couple of times.. *giggles* that is just my wacky memory though.

[Jack...]

Thanks so much Lori. I like Steve too, but I like Stevie Nicks better. :)

[icelandicblue]

Thank for mentioning me I feel in good company. I mean I write with a female slant, just how could you be me? I don't have the romantic bones you do either. I'm a Bostonian and I can't sing to save my life- I've heard you sing. Just because I speak my mind and others agree does not mean "we are borg," lol. Sometimes when one is paranoid its themselves they need to watch out for. Very often when others see treachery in others it is because they have been treacherous themselves. Great poem, I'm flattered to be mentioned in such illustrious company. I'm sorry you have to be bothered with such foolishness. This person believes this:

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare

Perhaps it is he who should look in the mirror.

[Frieda P]

I'm sure you won't mind Jack if I give blue a standing ovation in honor of her review here, Brava!

[Jack...]

Then let me stand with you. Brava my dear friend. Thank you so much for being my friend and reviewing my work.

[icelandicblue]

Anytime and thank you again for your poetry and your friendship- Curtsy- exit left. ; )

[Marie Anzalone]

We should just form a support group or something. 12-step program... "HI, I'm Jack... and yeah, I've also been accused."

My best was the moniker Anti-christ. Hence the t-shirt.

Personally, I would take it as a compliment most high if people think you are talented enough to log in from all over the world, creating different vocies, names, identities, and writing styles. Think about it. Mel Blanc was famous for it; novelists would give their left arm for that ability. Your future could be waiting.

good romp :-) I assume you meant the OTHER Marie?

[Jack...]

Marie my friend, you are included in this piece as I have two friends using Marie, just the same as Rose, I have two friends using Rose. Thank you for reading and I'll be happy to sign on with that support group, I just don't know which name to sign. :)>

[Marie Anzalone]

Select your own, then. Be a god for a day. Call yourself Dionysius and come prepared with the blood of a virgin or two to share at the meeting. ;-)

[Jack...]

Wow, the blood of a virgin...hmmm...let me see about that.

[Marie Anzalone]

well, ok, another extinct or mythical creature might do...

[Jack...]

I was thinking the Lux Fairy of Klohvahna. Just not sure if she is a virgin.

[Frieda P]

Good luck finding a virgin Walrus! ;-)

[Jack...]

You mean Richard Branson?

[eglantine]

Wow, I feel like I have missed something--I was not aware of people accusing you of posing.

[Jack...]

Yep, unfortunately it has happened many times. But honestly, I don't have the energy to be anyone else but me. Thanks Eglantine. Any book news yet? Hey look at it that way, if I am all of these people and I promised to buy your book, your sales will be through the in no time. :)

[TL Boehm]

When I was in school and in some of my other jobs I would get asked if I was a Tamara or Tabitha etc and I would say nope. Just a Tammy. It was actually my name on 360 Jus' Tammy.

[Jack...]

Thank you Tammy. Your smile always brightens my day, no matter who I am. :)

[Marie]

Jack, I've never thought yu were anyone but you.

[Jack...]

Me neither, but we seem to be a minority in that line of thinking Marie. Thanks so much.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

you didn't have to change it for me ,jack...but thanks..

i'm keeping the shirt.

[Jack...]

No problem my friend. It was my pleasure.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

are you sure you are not ME?

[Frieda P]

Wait, I thought you were me from a while back jacob...now I can't recall who even said that, I guess I haven't been myself in quite some time!

[Jack...]

Damn, I knew I forgot someone...hang on Jacob...one edit coming up

[redflutterby]

I want to be you Jacob..then I can write as wonderful as you do!! :-)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

:)-------------

[Jack...]

Sorry my friend, got you in there now. Damn it Red, you got your sharpener back, leave Jacob to me.

[Frieda P]

I just want my shirt back....

[Jack...]

But it doesn't match those cranky pants

[icelandicblue]

I don't want to be me right now anyway, grieving sucks, so if you wouldn't mind Jack it would be ever so lovely if you took over for say, a couple of months, and then I'll be back and ask for me back. Thanks!

[Jack...]

Sure, no problem Blue, anything to help bring that smile back. Attention everyone, an official correction to the poem...I am now Icelandicblue (on a temporary basis)

[Frieda P]

Who's blue so?

[Jack...]

Song sung blue, everybody knows one

[Frieda P]

I need to take notes this is bobinz! You know this will called 'beating a dead horse'....is there a dead horse here by the way?

[icelandicblue]

Bullet the blue sky behind blue eyes. Thanks for making me laugh guys. I needed that.

[Jack...]

I'm losing my voice, does that count?