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LOVED THAT TOM SAWYER MUSICAL WITH JODIE FOSTER AS BECKY THATCHER AND  JOHNNY WHITAKER AS TOM SAWYER...WHEN I WAS A KID I WENT  TO MERRIMAC CAVERNS A COUPLE OF TIMES WHERE THEY FILMED PART OF THE MOVIE TOM SAWYER WHEN THEY WERE HIDINNG OUT IN A CAVE AND INJUN JOE WAS AFTER THEM  AND  LASSIE FILMED THERE TOO...I THINK WE TOOK A RIVERBOAT RIDE...NOT SURE...BUT DEFINITELY SAW  RIVERBOATS THERE...I THINK IT WAS HANNIBAL MISSOURI BUT MAYBE THEY JUST CALLED IT THAT IN THE MOVIE NOT SURE...I KNOW I WENT ONCE WITH GIRL SCOUTS MAYBE TWICE  AND ONCE WITH MY FAMILY ON  A  ROAD TRIP...WE WENT A LOT OF COOL PLACES WITH GIRL SCOUTS...WE WERE ALWAYS HAVING PAPER DRIVES AND CAR WASHES AND GOING CAMPING AND ON FUN ROAD TRIPS...THE FURTHEST WE EVER WENT WAS TO NIAGARA FALLS ONCE...BACK THEN YOU DIDN'T NEED A PASSPORT TO GO TO CANADA TO SEE THE HORSESHOE FALLS PART OF NIAGARA FALLS...THE N.Y. FALLS LOOKED LIKE A LITTLE TRICKLE COMPARED TO THAT...A BUS FULL OF GIRL SCOUTS SEEMED SAFE TO THE BORDER POLICE I GUESS...BESIDES NIAGARA FALLS THE THING I REMEMBER MOST ABOUT CANADA WAS HOW CLEAN IT WAS THERE...IT WAS FILTHY ON THE N.Y. SIDE LOTS OF GARBAGE...LITTER... ALL OVER THE PLACE...CANADA WAS PRISTINE AND BEAUTIFUL.

THE FIRST TWO LINES ORIGINALLY STARTED OUT AS

WE SEE WHAT WE WANT TO SEE

WE HEAR WHAT WE WANT TO HEAR

BUT PRETTY SURE IT IS ACTUALLY WHAT WE'RE MEANT TO NOT NECESSARILY  JUST WHAT WE WANT TO....

THE MAGIC OF POETRY IS YOU ALWAYS GET THE MESSAGE YOU ARE MEANT TO GET AND IT MAY BE SURPRISINGLY DIFFERENT  FOR EACH PERSON WHO READS IT WHICH IS PRETTY COOL I THINK.

THE INSPIRATION FOR THIS WAS AN EMAIL SUBJECT THAT SAID DOES YOUR SCRIPT HAVE A MEMORABLE ENDING....NOT EVEN SURE HOW I WAS ON THEIR EMAIL LIST....I NEVER EVEN WROTE A SCRIPT....I WAS THINKING I HAD WATCHED SOMETHING RECENTLY...I THINK IT WAS BILOXI BLUES AND I THOUGHT THE ENDING WAS CLEVER AND I THINK I EVEN MENTIONED IT ON FB MAYBE...THAT WAS ONLY  MAYBE A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO AND I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS NOW SO  I GUESS IT IS NOT CONSIDERED A MEMORABLE ENDING....CUZ I DON'T REMEMBER IT...HA HA...I WATCH WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE A LOT AND I REMEMBER THEY GO OFF IN THE TRAILER WITH A GIRL AND HER GRANDMA THEY MET WHO TRAVEL ALL OVER...DURING THE MOVIE IT CAME UP QUITE A BIT WE'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE SO IT STUCK WITH ME THEY FINALLY DID GO SOMEWHERE...BUT THAT IS THE ONLY ENDING I REMEMBER NOW...I AM LUCKY IF I REMEMBER IF I LIKED A MOVIE OR NOT OR SAW IT OR NOT...I WATCH A LOT OF MOVIES....EVEN IF I REALLY  LOVE A MOVIE I RARELY REMEMBER EXACTLY HOW IT ENDED APPARENTLY....

I HAVE BEEN RACKING MY BRAIN FOR AWHILE  NOW AND I AM PRETTY SURE THE MAIN CHARACTER SAYS LIFE IS WEIRD...AT THE VERY END OF  BILOXI BLUES. I REMEMBER REPLYING...YEP IT SURE IS... I GOTTA WATCH IT AGAIN AND FIND OUT OR GOOGLE IT MAYBE OR  JUST FAST FORWARD IT TO THE END OF THE MOVIE TO FIND OUT FOR SURE...I WAS THINKING  LIFE SOMETHING AND THEN THOUGHT LIFE IS WEIRD SOUNDED ABOUT RIGHT...I WILL BE BACK TO CONFIRM OR DENY AFTER I FIND OUT FOR SURE...IF IT DOESN'T TAKE ME TOO LONG AND I FORGET ABOUT IT....JUST CHECKIN BACK IN...I WAS PRETTY DARN CLOSE...I JUST SCROLLED TO THE END OF THE MOVIE AND THE LAST LINE WAS....LIFE IS WEIRD YOU KNOW....

THAT PARTICULAR WORD JUST FEELS VULGAR TO ME. I DON'T KNOW WHY...WEIRD I KNOW...

I'VE HAD MY SHARE OF BITING DOWN ON A SOAP BAR AS A KID FOR SAYING WORDS MY PARENTS THOUGHT WERE BAD AND THAT WORD WAS NOT ONE OF THEM...NO IDEA WHAT IT IS ABOUT IT THAT JUST RUBS ME THE WRONG WAY...YUCK...JUST YUCKY

NEED TO PROTECT

COULD BE REPLACED BY

TEND TO PROJECT

GOING BACK N FORTH BETWEEN THE TWO

SOME STUFF IS PRETTY OBVIOUS NO MATTER WHICH WAY YOU GO WITH THAT...HA HA

JUST HEARD WHAT SOUNDED LIKE DRAG RACING GOING ON OUT THERE...LOTS OF SCREECHING WHEEL SOUNDS...I GUESS THEY KNEW  HOW TO RACE CUZ I DIDN'T HEAR ANY CRASHING SOUNDS....THAT DISTRACTED ME FOR A BIT BEFORE POSTING THIS...THAT WAS WEIRD I JUMPED DOWN TO THIS SECTION AND FORGOT TO POST THE POEM I GOT A MESSAGE WHEN I TRIED TO SAVE IT ABOUT BODY BEING REQUIRED...HA HA...

ANYWAY IF YOU ARE ONE WHO SEEKS PERFECTION OR THINKS  THEY FOUND IT I DON'T WANNA BURST ANY BUBLES HERE HENCE THE GRAIN OF SALT RHYME...