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MANY TIMES AS A KID I WAS  TOLD BY MY  MOM TO MIND MY OWN BUSINESS AND THAT SOME STUFF WAS NOBODY ELSE'S BUSINESS....SO I WAS JUST GONNA END WITH ON A NEED TO KNOW BASIS THERE'S SOME STUFF I DON'T NEED TO KNOW BUT THEN DECIDED TO ELABORATE ON EXAMPLES OF STUFF YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW....HMMM...INTERESTING TWIST THERE HUH...

I WANTED TO RHYME BOTH WORDS AND SEE HOW FAR I COULD GO TO CHANGE THINGS DRASTICALLY...SOMETIMES IT CAN BE TEDIOUS AND FEEL UPTIGHT TO BE TOO POLITE...SOMEBODY WILL PROBABLY SLIP SOONER OR LATER...INTENTIONALLY OR NOT...IT MAY FEEL LIKE YOU ARE WALKING ON EGG SHELLS TO BE ON YOUR BEST BEHAVIOR OR SOMETHING...I DUNNO....POLITE COMPANY JUST POPPED INTO MY HEAD AND THAT WAS WHAT CAME OF IT.

FAIRY TALES USUALLY END AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER...BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN EXACTLY...DID YOU EVER THINK ABOUT IT....I DIDN'T...JUST TOOK IT MATTER OF FACTLY...HAPPILY EVER AFTER...HMMM

THE LAST FOUR LINES CAME LATER...THE FIRST TWO OF THOSE WERE GONNA BE A COMMENT ON THE POEM HERE AND THEN THE LAST TWO CAME ALONG FOR THE RIDE VERY UNEXPECTEDLY...PUT OUT YOUR FOOT THE SHOE WILL FIT....A CINDERELLA STORY PERHAPS....WHO KNOWS...KEEPS ONE GUESSING I SUPPOSE.....OR PERHAPS AN EXAMPLE OF A FREE AND OPEN MIND AND WHERE IT CAN GO IF YOU LET IT...BEST NOT OVERTHINK IT....

I AM LISTENING TO A FREE TAPPING SUMMIT AND THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT PROCRASTINATION AND I REALIZED ALTHOUGH I AM A MAJOR PROCRASTINATOR IT NEVER EVER FACTORS INTO POETRY....PROCRASTINATION NEVER COMES INTO PLAY WHEN POETRY IS INVOLVED...SUCH A SIMPLE FAST PROCESS...IT COMES AND  THEN IT'S DONE...

ON SECOND THOUGHT TRY NOT TO  IMAGINE THAT...IT'S NOT A PRETTY PICTURE...

JUST WATCHED WORTH AND WAS THINKING ABOUT HOW PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE HAS SELF SABOTAGED THEMSELVES AT SOME POINT IN THEIR LIVES...WONDERING WHY IT SEEMS TO BE A TREND...THERE ARE SO MANY EASY WAYS TO DO IT...KINDA LIKE PICK YOUR POISON YOU KNOW....BUT WHY DO IT...SEEMS SO SENSELESS...AND YET IT HAPPENS...

OFTEN FEELS LIKE YOU ARE ON AUTOPILOT...PICKING STUFF UP AND HAVING TO WRITE IT DOWN FAST OR RECORD IT BEFORE YOU LOSE IT CUZ IT IS ELUSIVE...IT CAN LEAVE JUST AS QUICKLY AS IT COMES...BUT WHY DOES IT COME TO YOU AND WHY DO YOU FEEL THE NEED TO RECORD IT...OFTEN USING WORDS YOU MIGHT NOT NORMALLY SAY AND EVEN LOOKING THEM UP TO MAKE SURE THEY MAKE SOME KINDA SENSE IN SOME WAY...A CONUNDRUM...HAD TO LOOK THAT ONE UP...HA HA...NOT THAT IM COMPLAINING...I DON'T MIND IT BUT IT BOGGLES THE MIND...

I ACTUALLY RECORDED THIS FIRST BEFORE WRITING IT DOWN....

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I WAS THINKING OF SOMETHING SO RIDICULOUS I HEARD ON MASTERMINDS MOVIE TRAILER WHERE A COP WAS LOOKING AT A PIC OF A SUSPECT AND  DESCRIBING HIM SAYING HE LOOKS LIKE KENNY ROGERS AND KENNY LOGGINS HAD A LOVE CHILD AND THEN KENNY G SHOWED UP TO THE BIRTHDAY PARTY AND STARTED PLAYING FLUTE AND MESSED THAT BOY UP...IT WAS SO RIDICULOUS YET HILARIOUS AT THE SAME TIME....THAT WAS AN EXAMPLE OF IMAGINATION BUT HIM SAYING THAT AND YOU SEEING THE GUY...THE DESCRIPTION REALLY KINDA FIT AT THE SAME TIME....ANYWAY I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT WHEN I CAME UP WITH THIS POEM...I KEPT SAYING IT OVER AND OVER SO I WOULDN'T FORGET IT AND THEN RECORDED IT RIGHT AWAY AND THEN WROTE IT DOWN TO SHARE IT...