{"id":614,"date":"2010-03-23T03:27:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T07:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=614"},"modified":"2010-03-23T03:27:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T07:27:42","slug":"uh-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"Uh… poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"

God, I Want to Live Again<\/strong><\/p>\n

I stood before God’s front
\nand I prayed and said amen.
\nGod said: “What do you want?”
\nGod, I want to live again!<\/p>\n

I’d wanted to be dead
\nwith the pain I went through then.
\nAnd yet I somehow said:
\nGod, I want to live again!<\/p>\n

The fears, the hate, the why’s,
\nthe dark places I had been,
\nand yet I somehow cried:
\nGod, I want to live again!<\/p>\n

And I looked down at the earth,
\nat where I lived back when.
\nNow I know what it was worth.
\nGod, please, let me live again.<\/p>\n

——————–<\/p>\n

I’ve been feeling kind of bleh lately, too mentally tired to do much.\u00a0 It’s probably my terrible diet and lack of exercise.\u00a0 And I’m still waiting for the manufacturers to finish making my album.\u00a0 I wonder how dads feel waiting for their pregnant wives to give birth?<\/p>\n

Anyway, I wrote that poem.\u00a0 I’ll probably be embarrassed by it later, but for now I like it, since I just wrote it and am feeling sappy.\u00a0 I’ve written far worse anyway.<\/p>\n

I was looking for some of the old horrible poetry I wrote back in middle school.\u00a0 I had posted it on a website called Poetry.com<\/a>, but it looks like the self-publishing company Lulu has taken it over.\u00a0 And thus, my poems from back then are gone.\u00a0 Which I think is mostly a good thing.\u00a0 I think there was only one poem out of 10 or so that I was really proud of.\u00a0 The old Poetry.com used to also sell self-published poetry books, but they were much more schemish about it.\u00a0 They’d send you a letter congratulating you, making it seem like your poem went through some difficult selection process and if you gave them around $50 you could have a copy of the poetry book they’d like to publish you in!\u00a0 Of course, unless you are knowingly self-publishing yourself, being published should never cost you money, but I think plenty of people fell for the scam.\u00a0 Still, it wasn’t a bad site for just hosting your poetry, except you couldn’t edit or delete your work once it was posted, which was dumb.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I went ahead and posted<\/a> the poem to the site for a chance to win $5000.\u00a0 Oh yeah!\u00a0 Woohoo!\u00a0 I can’t wait to win!\u00a0 Maybe I’ll post a couple more later.\u00a0 By the way, I usually detest poetry, but when I’m feeling sappy, and I mistake myself for happy, my mind will get all snappy, and though I might write crappy, I won’t sleep or take a nappy until I get my thoughts unfurled and write a poem for the world.<\/p>\n

OK, that was lame.<\/p>\n

Does anybody want a peanut?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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