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SORTA THINKING OF THEATER CRITICS AND MOVIE CRITICS FOR INSTANCE...WHY DO PEOPLE VALUE THEIR OPINIONS SO MUCH...THEY ARE JUST OPINIONS NOT FACTS YOU KNOW...WHEN I WORKED AT A MOVIE THEATER AGES AGO I SAW PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING THAT CAME OUT. I NOTICED WHEN PEOPLE RAVED ABOUT A MOVIE MY EXPECTATIONS WOULD BE HIGHER AND I MIGHT BE DISAPPOINTED WITH THEM AND VICE VERSA IF THE CRITICS PANNED OR PEOPLE DIDN'T SEEM TO LIKE SOMETHING I OFTEN WOULD BE PLEASANTLY SURPRISED BY IT AND ACTUALLY ENJOY IT...SO WHAT YOU HEAR ABOUT STUFF CAN AFFECT YOUR EXPECTATIONS OF IT BUT YOU NEVER KNOW TIL YOU SEE IT YOURSELF...THEN AGAIN I CAN BE A MOODY WATCHER SO LIKE FOR INSTANCE IF I AM NOT IN THE MOOD FOR A CORNY COMEDY THEN IT WILL DISAPPOINT ME...LIKE I HAVE TO BE IN THE MOOD FOR THE PARTICULAR GENRE SOMETIMES...THOSE WERE KINDA THOUGHTS GOING ON WHEN I WROTE THIS ONE...

THIS WAS INSPIRED BY A MOVIE TITLE I CAME ACROSS...YOU'RE NOT YOU...I HAVEN'T WATCHED IT YET SO NO IDEA WHAT IT'S ABOUT BUT  NONETHELESS THE TITLE INSPIRED THIS POEM I WROTE BEFORE WATCHING THE MOVIE...

THIS BEING PURGATORY WAS SOMETHING I CAME UP WITH AS A KID GOING TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL THEY TALKED ABOUT PURGATORY AND HEAVEN OR HELL...SO I FIGURED THIS MUST BE PURGATORY WITH FREE WILL TO DO GOOD OR BAD AND WHICHEVER YOU CHOSE LED YOU TO THE NEXT PLACE THAT WAS HEAVEN OR HELL...STILL KINDA MAKES SENSE TO ME ALTHOUGH I HAVE HEARD MANY OTHER THEORIES SINCE THEN...I REMEMBER READING A BOOK IN MY YOUNGER DAZE CAN'T REMEMBER THE TITLE FOR SURE BUT SOMETHING LIKE  WE WHO ARE THE DEAD LIKE THEORY WAS THIS IS DEATH AND DEATH IS LIFE...GIVES YOU LOTS TO THINK ABOUT THERE...THEN I'VE HEARD IT'S ALL ABOUT FAITH AND BELIEF LIKE YOU CAN HAVE HEAVEN ON EARTH OR HELL ON EARTH DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT THIS PLACE...LOTS TO THINK ABOUT THERE...

SORT OF HALF WATCHING INDECENT PROPOSAL. I SAW IT A LONG TIME AGO AND PUT IT ON OVERNIGHT SO SLEPT THROUGH SOME OF IT BUT HAD THE PREMISE OF IT ON MY MIND WHEN I GOT UP AND WROTE THIS POEM...

I SUPPOSE BEING A DREAMER COMES WITH THE TERRITORY WRITING POETRY...

JUST DRAWING A BLANK ON ANYTHING ELSE AT THE MOMENT...THERE MUST BE SOMETHING ELSE...EVEN IF THAT WERE THE ONLY ONE IT'S GOOD FOR LOTS OF LAUGHS FOR ME...MAYBE NOT FOR THE USHER... MAKES ME THINK OF THAT MISCHIEVOUS IRISH LEPRECHAUN IN H.S. THAT JUST USED TO LOVE TO SNEAK UP ON ME FROM BEHIND AND TRIP ME...SHE THOUGHT THAT WAS THE FUNNIEST THING...ME NOT SO MUCH... IF YOU DIDN'T SEE I DESPISE TIES THAT GOES MORE INTO THE  PULLING OFF THE CLIP ON TIE  STORY... 

 https://postpoems.org/authors/pamschwetz/poem/1120559

MAYBE SINCE A SUIT JACKET AND TIE

OFTEN COME TO MIND

WHEN FORCING PEOPLE TO DRESS UP...

TIES SEEMED A HUGE WASTE OF TIME WATCHING PEOPLE TRY TO PUT THEM ON...NO PATIENCE FOR THAT AND CONSTANTLY ADJUSTING THEM CUZ THEY NEVER SEEMED QUITE RIGHT... THE CLIP ON WELL THAT IS JUST  TOO BIG OF A TEMPTATION TO PULL OFF...HA HA

I ALWAYS FOUND IT RIDICULOUS  TO WEAR YOUR BEST CLOTHES TO A RESTAURANT SO YOU COULD RUIN THEM IF ANYTHING GOT SPILLED OR FELL ON THEM... I GUESS I NEVER LIKED DRESSING UP CUZ TOO MUCH ATTENTION WAS PAID TO IT...LIKE PEOPLE WOULD MAKE SUCH A FUSS IT MADE ME VERY UNCOMFORTABLE...    ..FORCED TO WEAR DRESSES IN CATHOLIC SCHOOL UNIFORMS I DESPISED. BEING FORCED TO WEAR THEM MANY YEARS MADE ME WANT NOT TO WEAR THEM DESPERATELY....AS SOON AS I GOT HOME I WOULD TAKE THAT UNFIROM OFF AND PUT SOME PANTS ON....I FIT RIGHT IN WHEN I WENT TO HAWAII...SUPER CASUAL...THAT'S FOR ME...IF I EVER SEE THE PHRASE DRESS TO IMPRESS I STAY FAR AWAY... 

I WASN'T SURE WHERE THIS ONE WAS GOING BUT LIKE WHERE IT ENDED UP...

LET YOUR IMAGINATION RUN WILD WITH THIS ONE...

IT CAN TAKE YOU MANY PLACES...

FROM SIMPLE SIMON MET A PIE MAN GOING TO THE FAIR

SAID SIMPLE SIMON TO THE PIE MAN LET ME TASTE YOUR WARES...

TO MUSIC SAMPLING...

TO SAMPLES OF POETRY....

TO PICTURING PUZZLE PIECES THAT ARE NOT ALL PUT TOGETHER YET...

A MERE SAMPLING OF PLACES MY MIND GOES WHEN I WROTE THIS ONE AND WHILE READING THIS ONE....

HAVE FUN