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FEINT OR FAINT...I REMEMBER FAINTING IN CHURCH AS A KID IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WHEN THEY WOULD DO THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS AND IT WAS HOT IN THERE AND CROWDED AND I HAD MY COAT ON AND THE INCENSE SMELL WAS OBNOXIOUSLY STRONG. IT FELT HARD TO BREATHE LIKE I COULDN'T GET ANY FRESH AIR...THEN FEELING DIZZY AND FINALLY COLLAPSING...SCARY STUFF...HAVE YOU EVER FAINTED...WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER ABOUT IT...NOT VERY FUN IS IT...SCARY STUFF... DO YOU EVER GET PANIC ATTACKS OUT OF THE BLUE ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU FEEL LIKE YOU FORGOT HOW TO BREATHE SO YOU HYPERVENTILATE AND CAN'T SEEM TO CATCH YOUR BREATH......THAT IS PRETTY SCARY TOO...OR FEELING CLAUSTROPHOBIC...I REMEMBER BEING IN A CROWD AT CHICAGO FEST FOR A JOURNEY CONCERT. IT WAS VERY HOT AND SO CROWDED AND PEOPLE WERE PUSHING THEIR WAY INTO THE CONCERT AND KNOCKED DOWN A FENCE. THE ENTIRE TIME I WAS TRYING TO PUSH MY WAY OUT OF THERE GOING AGAINST THE CROWD...TALK ABOUT CLAUSTROPHOBIC...TALK ABOUT PANIC ATTACKS...GEEZ...I HATE BEING IN CROWDS NOW...I DON'T EVER WANT TO RELIVE THAT FEELING...FUNNY SUCH A SHORT POEM CONJURES UP SO MANY MEMORIES...NOT GOOD ONES...

I MIGHT DITCH THE LAST VERSE CUZ I DON'T USUALLY SWEAR. TOO MUCH SOAP IN MY MOUTH IN MY YOUNGER DAZE LEAVES A BAD TASTE IN MY MOUTH IN MY HEAD...I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER WHAT THE OFFENDING WORDS WERE I GOT THAT FOR CUZ I KNEW BETTER THAN TO SWEAR. IT ALWAYS AMUSES ME THINKING ABOUT WHAT IS A GOOD WORD AND WHAT IS A BAD WORD...LIKE WHO MADE THOSE RULES AND WHY DO WE STICK TO THEM...ANYWAYS JUST GOT UP AND WROTE THIS WITH A TUNE STUCK IN MY HEAD...SO MORE LYRICS THAN POETRY...IT IS WHAT IT IS...

THIS JUST HAPPENED...

FOR WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. HOPE THIS MESSAGE REACHES YOU.

SAW A WRITERS DIGEST POETRY PROMPT TO WRITE AN ESCAPE POEM. THIS IS WHAT CAME TO MIND. SEEMS WE ALL ESCAPE IN DIFFERENT WAYS  BUT ALL OF US FEEL THE NEED TO DO IT. I KNOW SOME USE DRUGS OR ALCOHOL BUT CHOSE TO LEAVE THAT OUT OF MY POEM...THE UNDERLYING QUESTION IS WHY WE ALL SEEM TO HAVE THE NEED TO ESCAPE IN SOME WAY EVERYDAY...WEIRD PHENOMENON...WORTH EXPLORING.

EASIER SAID THAN DONE I SUPPOSE

I WAS WATCHING PUBLIC ENEMIES AND SOMEBODY MENTIONED A KANGAROO COURT...THEN I THOUGHT OF WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING...WHY SO MANY NEGATIVE TERMS REFERRING TO ANIMALS...IT GIVES THEM A BAD RAP...I LOVE ANIMALS AND THINK THEY SHOULD BE SHOWN MORE RESPECT... 

A RANDOM THOUGHT...I REMEMBER ONCE SOMEONE MADE A COMMENT ABOUT SOMETHING BEING PEDESTRIAN AND A SOMETIMES SMART ALECK ME SAID...HOW DID YOU KNOW I AM A PEDESTRIAN...I WALK EVERYWHERE...ARE YOU PSYCHIC OR WHAT...THEY DIDN'T THINK THAT WAS FUNNY BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS HILARIOUS...WHAT MADE ME RANDOMLY THINK OF THAT I HAVE NO IDEA...THAT IS JUST HOW RANDOM I CAN BE...

SOMETIMES WALK INTO THINGS ASSUMING I WILL JUST PASS THROUGH THEM FOR SOME ODD REASON...I CAN BE A SPACE CADET AT TIMES. I REMEMBER I USED TO HAVE A PIN THAT SAID JUST VISITING THIS PLANET. IT IS PROBABLY STILL AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE...I LOVED MORK N MINDY AND USED TO SAY I WAS FROM A NEIGHBORING PLANET OF ORK...I REMEMBER ON MY MOVIE THEATER NAME TAG I PUT PAM ANN LIKE PAN AM AIRWAYS FOR BEING A SPACE CADET...YOU DON'T HEAR THAT TERM THESE DAYS...ANYWAYS...TREAD SLOWLY AND FOCUS MY FELLOW SPACE CADETS OUT THERE...