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Reality

Usagi's picture

I was surprisingly cheerful when I wrote this.

I thought I was real but reality's subjective.
Lately I feel I'm walking through a dream.
I made a deal I would stay objective
but I look at my life; I want to scream

This is all there is. This is
all we'll ever see.
What's laid out before us is
all there'll ever be.
Doncha see the flags
waving at half-mast?
Betcha not just me

who's realized this can't last.

And the world
isn't pretty ponies
like they told you in second grade.
Before
you found out it's more about
trying to get laid.

And I refuse to apologize if I offend.
I don't intend to be your friend
'cause chances are we'll all be dead
by 2010.

So celebrate the life you have
'cause it's all you'll ever get.
Break out the beer and the good champagne

'cause
we're not dead yet.

Widsith's picture

I love it, especially the

I love it, especially the unwillingness to apologize for what you say. My favorite stanza is teh one about "Lifeis not all pretty ponies like they told you in second grade". Is this a song, a poem, or both?

Wow. I really liek this

Wow. I really like this poem. It's true we can be here today and not 2morrow. And the line "u found out its more bout tryna to get laid" i think it's very powerful and its something that seems to be in style. It happens because ppl just do things these days without thinking.
-Selma

Ponies!

by any chance have you read BlondBlondiie's
"Happiness Shines in a Circle of Ponies"
tehe
my former account
*cracks open a beer, wait a minute im only 14, cracks open a diet coke, ahh thats more like it*
cheers to your poem!

NeonKiwi's picture

I had

I had a feeling about that...
Why so many changes?
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~ NeonKiwi ~

Because words just taste that much better when laced with venom.

r u talking to me? u talkin

r u talking to me?
u talkin tah me
u talk teh me
*teheh i luv how when people duplicate that pne sentence for dramatic effect it gets more slurred and gets a brooklyn tone to i*
but seriously r u talking to me?

NeonKiwi's picture

Chya.

But you already told me who you were, so...
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~ NeonKiwi ~

Because words just taste that much better when laced with venom.

one* yes i realise ican

one*
yes i realise ican edit, but this is easier so ,one* =P...=D

ohhhh okay yah not too good

ohhhh okay
yah not too good at the whole lying thing
when in the process of hiding and lying
i give up my secret
i guess i can check off "secret agent man/woman" from my list of possible careers
dangnabit!

NeonKiwi's picture

Haha.

Darn, I always wanted you to be a secret agent so that you couldn't tell me what your job was but then I'd have to figure it out anyway but then I would figure it out but you wouldn't be able to tell me that I was right so we'd have to make up our own secret code and it would be awesome.
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~ NeonKiwi ~

So much for not creating run-on sentences...

cool but how would we

cool
but how would we recongnize eachother
i know
if u see someone sneeze
then tht means theyre telling us theyre a
secret agent as well
hrmm theyre may b flaws in tht code
??perhaps?

NeonKiwi's picture

Er... Nah!

Look! Mr. RandomDude sneezed! SECRET AGENT!!!
Wait - I don't recognize him. He must be from the other side.

DESTROY!!!
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~ NeonKiwi ~

Hm. Maybe my logic is flawed...

AHHHH

*grabs lazer gun, quickly realises it is just and inhaler*
"ok whose in charge of weaponry, this is defintetly not what the description said in the paper, it stated "verypowerful pocket sized weapon" , not "whimpy alubuterol sprayer" ok im switching agency's

NeonKiwi's picture

Hahaha!

*wipes tear from eye* That's one of the funniest things I've heard all day.
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~ NeonKiwi ~

Because words just taste that much better when laced with venom.

aww katilyn dont cry u can

aww katilyn dont cry u can switch agency's as well
btw hav u had much human contact or conversation today
no one wants to see me or come near cus im sick
=(
i feel like a leper
lol

NeonKiwi's picture

Well,

My parents are sick too, so, yeah...
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~ NeonKiwi ~

Because words just taste that much better when laced with venom.

haha thts cool its like a

haha thts cool its like a family gathering=D

NeonKiwi's picture

Ooh, yeah.

It's so much fun. *rolls eyes*
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~ NeonKiwi ~

Because words just taste that much better when laced with venom.

i can only imagine

i can only imagine

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