The Slippery Soapbox

[Fogdude]

Having just won the Mr. Grumpy award for 2017, I thought I might share something rather embarrassing from my teens. More of us than will admit that, at one time or another, in our life, we wrote a piece of poetry. I went though a phase like that. One of my younger brothers is going through that phase right now. He always was a bit slow on the uptake. Anyway, I also dabbled with the guitar, around this same time & wrote several songs that I also developed lyrics for.

Below is one I did that, for some reason, came to mind just yesterday. I have no idea why. It's not written down anywhere (except now). I just recalled it.

Try to imagine it being sung by Donovan. It's not to a tune you'll recognize, but the tempo should give you an idea how it went. I never recorded it, or even wrote down the lyrics. Maybe some of you have similar little embarrassments like this you could share?

I am exposing myself here (figuratively) so I expect I'll get some snarky comments. That's fine. Have at it. But those who throw stones...

Small wind blow
Leaf fall down
Reflection grow
Round & Round

Sky kiss Earth
Bird kiss sea
All have kiss
But me

Little boy grow up
To be a man
Everyone say
They are his friend

Never give
Always take
Being born
First mistake

God moves in
God moves out
All life is
Roundabout

Never know
Reason why
Must be why
I cry

Little boy grow up
To be a man
Everyone say
They are his friend

Never give
Always take
Being born
First mistake

Being born
First mistake

[Wrench]

Keep your day job

[ctaulbee]

I am exposing myself here...

Boy that line right there gave me a terrible scare  

[chouette]

Well, that's not bad at all. And the good part of it all is that you can keep your day job and create more like these...



Now, my question is... How did you win the Mr. Grumpy award for 2017?

[Fogdude]

Well, as I said, I did that as a teenager. I believe I was 17 when I wrote that. I haven't written any since & don't expect to ever do so again.

As to the Mr. Grumpy Award, that was bestowed after my little rant in the 'what are you listening to' thread. I would have removed it, but by the time Curt chewed me out about it, several people had already quoted it, including the maestro, himself, so we opted to just let it die a withering death.

Thanks for making me revive it!

[chouette]

My pleasure, what are friends for anyway right? lol - But to be fair, you got yourself a cool medal. Not as cool as my little Canadian owl, but still...

[alienmem]

Yeah but my medal says genius man!! Can' beat that!!! lolol

BTW, you're poetry for a 17 year old is nothing to be ashamed of.
it clearly relfects what goes on in teenage years.

Actually I write a lot. I write every single day on my little pocket notebook stuff that I wanna make into a novel.


I could post some if you guys like but most stuff is jokes tha have a lot of curse words...but some aren't Just let me know and I'll expose myself maybe more than Fog

[Fogdude]

Yeah but my medal says genius man!! Can' beat that!!! lolol

BTW, you're poetry for a 17 year old is nothing to be ashamed of.
it clearly relfects what goes on in teenage years.

Actually I write a lot. I write every single day on my little pocket notebook stuff that I wanna make into a novel.


I could post some if you guys like but most stuff is jokes tha have a lot of curse words...but some aren't Just let me know and I'll expose myself maybe more than Fog

I guess you'll just have to post some, if you want to & we'll have to decide if it's too vulgar for public consumption, huh?

I've yet to come to an appreciation of why so many younger folks are so taken with verbal vulgarity. It's never an indicator of intellect, skill, or prowess with language, quite the opposite. Not that I don't use vulgarity every day, myself, but it's common, crass, & a form of mental laziness, as far as I'm concerned. Before it became standard practice for standup comedians, it had some slight comedic value, because comedy depends on surprise. That's what makes you laugh out loud when you hear or see something funny. It's the surprise, or sometimes, shock, that delivers the humorous mental image that we think of as a good joke. But when foul language became routine, it lost that value. It was a cheap route to eliciting a laugh from an audience, at best, but it did work, for a short time.

Once again, sorry for the rant. It's very early & I have a long day ahead.

[alienmem]

Yeah but my medal says genius man!! Can' beat that!!! lolol

BTW, you're poetry for a 17 year old is nothing to be ashamed of.
it clearly relfects what goes on in teenage years.

Actually I write a lot. I write every single day on my little pocket notebook stuff that I wanna make into a novel.


I could post some if you guys like but most stuff is jokes tha have a lot of curse words...but some aren't Just let me know and I'll expose myself maybe more than Fog

I guess you'll just have to post some, if you want to & we'll have to decide if it's too vulgar for public consumption, huh?

I've yet to come to an appreciation of why so many younger folks are so taken with verbal vulgarity. It's never an indicator of intellect, skill, or prowess with language, quite the opposite. Not that I don't use vulgarity every day, myself, but it's common, crass, & a form of mental laziness, as far as I'm concerned. Before it became standard practice for standup comedians, it had some slight comedic value, because comedy depends on surprise. That's what makes you laugh out loud when you hear or see something funny. It's the surprise, or sometimes, shock, that delivers the humorous mental image that we think of as a good joke. But when foul language became routine, it lost that value. It was a cheap route to eliciting a laugh from an audience, at best, but it did work, for a short time.

Once again, sorry for the rant. It's very early & I have a long day ahead.

That's why I did say I usually write jokes although in real life somtimes a curse word comes out every one in a while. But it's not like i regurgitate foul language or recite it.

i agree. I think the common practise of it came from TV. Rap and comedy I think played a huge part in accepting vulgar language (even vulgar language objectifying women is common now). I think it's not a question of being lazy. It's a cultural question. Kids see it on tv as mainstream since they are babies so they come to acdept it and think it's cool.

What was for you, a long time ago, appropriate behaviour and being a standup person is different now and will be different in 50 and 100 and 200 years from now. Some say it's better. Some say it's worse. I dunno. There can be made a case for both.

But I agree on the foul mouths running around on tv all the time.



PS. i'll post some of my stuff. Little by little if people like it. My intention is to make a book but right now It's only ideas. ideas that come at night in my sleep, when i see something in the streets or anywhere.

I have a vampire theory that I think is very cool.
Maybe I'll post that first

[ctaulbee]

I have a vampire theory that I think is very cool.
Maybe I'll post that first

Have you captured one alive, if so do you have pictures...  

[alienmem]

I have a vampire theory that I think is very cool.
Maybe I'll post that first

Have you captured one alive, if so do you have pictures...  :D

wait and see. maybe I'll post some stuff today.

i know you're curious!!! i was born curios as well!!!