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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 SUPPOSE IT'S PROSE...IT'S CERTAINLY NOT A POEM...I JUST GOT CARRIED AWAY ON THE TOPIC OF  BEING CARRIED AWAY...IT'S JUST WHAT CAME TO ME THINKING ABOUT  GETTING CARRIED AWAY SO I JUST LET IT BE CARRIED AWAY AS IT WAS ON TOPIC AND MAYBE A GOOD EXAMPLE OF BEING CARRIED AWAY...I HAVE NO IDEA IF IT WOULD EVEN BE POSSIBLE TO DO A READERS DIGEST CONDENSED VERSION...I HIGHLY DOUBT IT...I WILL JUST LET IT BE AND LEAVE IT ALONE....

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

WE'RE ALL HERE TO LEARN AND TEACH

TRY TO PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH

CAME AS AN AFTER THOUGHT...

IT'S OFTEN EASIER TO GIVE ADVICE THAN TAKE IT SO MAKE SURE YOU CAN TAKE IT BEFORE YOU GIVE IT...

A LINE JUMPED OUT AT ME IN LITTLE WOMEN SOMETHING ABOUT BEING HOPELESSLY FLAWED...WE ARE NOT HOPELESSLY FLAWED...ONLY FLAWED WITH LOTS OF HOPE...ALWAYS ROOTING TO OVERCOME THE FLAWS AND OFTEN SUCCEEDING IF WE DON'T GIVE UP HOPE.

YOU CAN HEAR THEM IN YOUR MIND ANYTIME YOU NEED TO SOOTHE YOUR SOUL...JUST IMAGINE AND LISTEN...

I DON'T KNOW WHY THIS MAKES ME THINK OF WHEN I HOUSEMANAGED DOING MY USHERS SPEECH LETTING THEM KNOW WHAT I NEEDED HELP WITH FOR THE SHOW...WHEN I GOT TO THE END OF THE SPEECH I WOULD ASK  ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS AND USUALLY THERE WERE NOT CUZ I WAS PRETTY THOROUGH SO IF THEY PAID ATTENTION THERE WERE NO QUESTIONS...SO I WOULD FOLLOW IT  UP WITH...ARE THERE ANY ANSWERS...THAT ALWAYS GOT A LAUGH...ONLY ONCE I REMEMBER SOMEONE RESPONDING WITH A STRANGE ANSWER THAT  STUMPED ME...HA HA...CAUGHT ME OFFGUARD...UNEXPECTED...THEY MUST HAVE USHERED FOR ME BEFORE AND CAME PREPARED WITH AN ANSWER...HA HA

ORIGINALLY TITLED MESSAGES FROM BEYOND...THE LAST TWO LINES CAME AS I WAS COPYING THE POEM OVER HERE AND THE TITLE WAS CHANGED...