six things I forgot to tell you
by AuldMiseryGuts (Member) - published: March 7, 2008
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#1

I have worn
A silk scarlet evening dress
Please do not hold this against me

#2

Ugliness,
A friend of mine said
Is when everybody is staring
And nobody is looking

In paradise perhaps
We are all as sexless as shadows.

#3

Please stop calling me

When I picture your face
I feel like a door
That someone’s forgotten
To shut.

#4

I never was comparing
You to him

I loved him too much
For that.

#5

That time you caught me
Stood on the coffee table

I wasn’t fitting
An energy saving bulb

I was checking if the fixture
Would hold my weight.

#6

When you hit me
I didn’t hate you

I let you do it
I was using you
To punish me.

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The human race, the only race I know where everybody loses.

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The following comments are for "six things I forgot to tell you"
by AuldMiseryGuts

Shannon's big six'er!
I feel like a desperate stalker, commenting on poems before they actually show up on the home page. But I am without a car for the next few weeks and have nothing to do and nowhere to go.

Anyway, read this on myspace and loved it. It has a brutal honesty that I enjoy most about your work. Has all the bells and whitles of a Shannon poem.

#5 is still my favorite. Love how you mention energy saving bulbs. Always thinking of saving the world before saving yourself, eh? I won't repeat what I wrote on myspace because this is a family site - well, except for Terence and his potty mouth!

Have nothing new to post but you might have just inspired me...

( Posted by: desvelado [Member] On: March 7, 2008 )

six ways to Shannon
#1: In a poem where you're the mirror, I'll hold the silk scarlet dress against me...

#2 Ugliness is those among the lookers, who stare...In paradise, I'd rather be shadowless than sexless

#3 hahahahaha! not doing a single solitary thing to this one, as I am completely in sync with this "get out of my face" bit...Love it!

#4 this one, my dear friend, is biblical, I fear, and, although I can't do the complete quote where love is not selfish, etc and so forth, well, you get it, "love does not compare"...

#5 reminds me of Friday afternoons, day shift in Psychiatry, inventorying "plans" and recommending weekend passes based on an absence of "plan"...that routine got tedious after 18 years...

#6 in other words, "you dumbfuck, why the shit do you hate me when I hit you?" I love empathy! Don't you love empathy?

Shannon, even if I ever finish reading 600,000 things you may remember to tell, and am well on my way to 6 million, it won't change the fact that I thank the universe for you being around in my century. I don't know about others, can only speak for myself, but am definitely lucky to know you. Your poetry is the art of humanity, and vice versa, your humanity is the art of poetry. You're a VIP, with the "P" standing for poet, of course.

Thank you!
Lucie

( Posted by: windchime [Member] On: March 8, 2008 )

six things
Well Shannon, interesting work indeed. You an open book, mine will stay closed.
#1-only the self righteous will.
#2-brilliant definition of ugly. The Bible says we are sexless as the angels.
#3-sorry, this one I don't get, will read the other comments later, maybe they will explain.
#4-Whoa! Zinger!
#5-So sorry for your pain my friend.
#6-So sorry for your pain. Robert.

( Posted by: robnjop [Member] On: March 8, 2008 )

thanking three
cheers all for stopping by here and lifting my severely deflated spirits...

Francisco, nah, you're not in to crazy stalky territory yet... I've had a few of those and you're nowhere close ;) ... I think #3 is still probably my favourite. #5 makes me wince when I read it, but I believe now as I did then that the planet is more worthy of saving than me, than any single human being… and sometimes saving planet seems easier task than saving self… I’m not great at inward facing mindfulness… it’s dumb luck I’ve lasted this long ;) … my myspace isn’t playing the game right now and I’m having trouble accessing people’s comments… just so you know, I’m not being a jerk and ignoring you… hope to see the fruit of said inspiration soon. best to ye…

Lucie, #1 in poem where poet’s the mirror, reader probably looks better in silk dress than he does ;) …

#2 yes, I agree as to the true place and nature of where that ugliness resides… although sometimes being sexless would be akin to bliss… sometimes rather shadow than shadowed… I was having one of those days…

#3 he-he, like I said, this is my favourite, because that get-out-of-my-face was a long time coming… empowered at end… but tired…

#4 Corinthians, a favourite of mine, where love hopes and endures all things. I get it. :)

#5 only ever seen this from other side… planning got tedious too after a while. I don’t envy you, my friend…

#6 yup… and in this case empathy of much more value than anger…

you know, those 600,000 things may in due course crop up… am on 406th post, which is a lot. if only quantity was kin to quality then I’d be set for life ;) … I believe as poets we’re all as important as each other. I am lucky to be here, to have found this “home”… consider self not only lucky but blessed to know you, and to have the voice of your higher-humanity in my life. count you amongst one my most evolved friends… thank you, and best blessings to you…

Robert, thank you… my book might be open but it’s a rambling stream-of-consciousness tome, self-published and appropriately riddled with unmotivated dialogue, plot holes and spelling errors ;) there are times I’m with Mark Twain about how it’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt… but then poetry seems to be, at least eighty percent of the time, having the fearlessness to appear foolish ;) … #3 is, like I said, just a get-out-of-my-face that was a long time coming… nothing too deep… sometimes I’m shallow as a tide pool… sometimes pain is less, sometimes more, such is life. best to you.

( Posted by: AuldMiseryGuts [Member] On: March 9, 2008 )

I stop in . . .
. . . now and then, just to see what's going on. I only click on a few poems, now and then a story.

This time I'm greeted with:

"I have worn
A silk scarlet evening dress
Please do not hold this against me"

Damn. That's one hell of a greeting.

:)

Nice work, AMG.

( Posted by: Viper9 [Member] On: March 12, 2008 )

Viper
miss your presence here. thanks for alighting on this one. regular butterfly, you are. ;) best to ye.

( Posted by: AuldMiseryGuts [Member] On: March 14, 2008 )

What I remember to tell you
Oh how very....."shredding" of the heart this piece is. You make quite clear your stuggle with self-loathing.

I bet you looked AWESOME in that dress!

When I read the 6th paragraph I instantly flashed back to my marrage. It was hard to accept that I did not deserve the things he did to me. At the time.....I deserved it; I hate me so it's ok if beats the hell out of me; he's doing me a favor. Violence was the only definition of love that I knew so to leave a man that loved me SO much?

Many years of therapy taught me better.

I hope you too find help to learn what I see in you...A mezmerizing beauty inside that that displays itself well on the outside!

much love
xoxo

( Posted by: TAMMYHENDRIX [Member] On: May 27, 2008 )

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