28 July 2005

ALL - Angst Poetry returns to RiotACT

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For those who’ve been missing “johnboy life theatre” I now offer a small piece of where I’m at.

If you don’t like angst ridden blank verse then best give it a miss.

ALL

You can offer it all
Everything you’ve got. All that you are.
The very essence of your being.

The best bottles of wine, the funniest DVD’s
The smoothest dacquiris, the coolest shows.
Witty conversation into the smallest hours.

You can share the deepest secrets of your soul
And the darkest desires of your heart.
All your fears, all your hopes.

But, if you were born without that vital spark,
Some tiny missing piece of character,
And personality.

Then all you can do is lie between your teeth,
Run before the wind,
And pray you can fake it long enough.

Because no-one will love you for your honesty.

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Actually JB I liked your poem and anyway, we’ve all been there. Hey it could have been worse, you could’ve sent her a mix tape!

You didn’t…did you? 😉

Dont ya just hate how the internet can come and bite you on the arse 4 years after the fact.. Home my emo pics are no longer circulating….

Skid resurrected this one – and I’m so glad he did.

johnboy said :

It’s an old thread.

Leave it alone people.

Dagnabbit. And I really liked Thumper’s quote too. Who resurrects old post, esp. ones this old, leading the masses astray?!

It’s an old thread.

Leave it alone people.

Yeah Nik,

I forgot. Lyrics these days go something like this;

‘Oh baby baby,
yeah baby baby’
uh huh huh
oh baby’

And thats the verse!

Pool Room!

That’s kind of true and not true all at once.

lol (but jealous – I can’t write any poetry, blank or umm, not blank?)

Thank you all for your kind words.

Any and all comparisons to The Smiths are greatly appreciated. But I must confess I was listening to Belle and Sebastian at the time.

Absent Diane4:40 pm 28 Jul 05

im clutching at straws again arent i??

Absent Diane4:13 pm 28 Jul 05

Its funny because when you think about top 40 hip hop (refuse to use the term R&B) is so similar to bubblegum rock (a music genre well before my time) just throw in the odd expletive and threat of violence….

Oh Sugar (dadadada)
Oh Honey Honey (dadadada)
You are a skanky hoe and Im going to kneecap you

I think you’ll find the missing piece of character was impounded by the Indonesians at Denapasar Airport.

Well that’s if Queensland Girls are to be included which comes during a later post…

Bulldog, nothing wrong with former beauty students come celebrity prisoners or their sisters, but god help them if they ever look like their mom.

Although I’ve only just traded hillbilly for white trash haven’t I ?

Nah, that was the early 90’s, Nirvana and all that.

Remove the mystery and you kill the adventure. You have to save honesty till after the wedding. But by then you’re both fucked anyway. 😛

I thought it was good, but terubo is onto something about the Smiths… Sort of whiny and self pitying in an elequant turn of phrase. JB, were you listening to Placebo with that bottle of red?

I hate to go against the grain but in my experience trying to hookup with hillbillies can only end in misery. Knowing that you can never marry because you aren’t related tends to weigh upon a relationship.

Why did I not heed your warning to give it a miss?

Nausea overcometh me.

Why am I immediately (and poignantly) reminded of the faraway days of the Smiths?

Awwwwww.

ahhh, look at all this support, it’s like a big electronic hug’n’sit down with a warm cup’o’tea.

I agree with David. Swap the red wine for a pair of thongs and a slab of XXXX in the sun. I have a theory that the further north you travel in Australia, you find that sheilas usually put out with less hassle.

I wouldn’t say it was a missing piece of character. But give the lady time to fall for you!

David Heidelberg8:31 am 28 Jul 05

An absolutely gorgeous woman once told me that self-effacement was unattractive.

I agree with bloodnut. There are no missing pieces of personality. The only thing that is missing, is the skill to allow that part to emerge.

Failing that, a sea change to Queensland works.

Well, we love you for your honesty.

We’re probably not your target market, though.

Up late with nothing but a pen, paper and a bottle of wine – such a romanticised image.

By way of assuaging the pain, personality psychology suggests that it is improbable for an individual to be born “without…that missing piece of…personality”.

It’s in there somewhere – isn’t that wonderful news.

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