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Along the Way
by Sue Hess → (All Poetry by Sue Hess)
  
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Yep That’s Me


I think I was born

Fully grown at 16, pulled yelling and screamin

Into a world I didn’t understand

There I was in my patched blue jeans

(I know, that’s a stretch but if I can be born at sixteen I can damned sure be born fully dressed.

Besides this is my story and the patched blue jeans

Set the mood

For what I have to tell

Back to where I left off

In my artistically patched blue jeans

And all around me

I see sweater sets,matched pearls

Junior proms

I’m scared to death

Its worse than I first thought

It’s the suburbs

And I am here, out of my depth

A postage stamp with a dot

Of lsd 25 under my tongue

A denim jacket over my shoulder

And I know its time to go

Forward to L.A.

Venice Beach to be exact

A million miles from the burbs

Light years away from my birth

And I’ve found a home at last

I think

I really believe

How easy I am to decieve

What I found

In my numbed stumbling fashion

Is another plane, another dimension

Where lies become our truth

Where we sit and stuff our minds

With anything chemical and illegal

While we bemoan our sad

Beginnings

Without a thought to where

We were headed

Going

Too fast

Speeding

On




Down a lost highway

Looking back

Never ahead

Afraid we might see

That wall we are

Speeding toward

That oblivion

We claim to want

That decision

We decline to make

Made for us by a hit too big

Heroin too strong

Cocaine too pure

But wait

This is me we are talking about

And I am still here writing these words

Did I see the light

Find God

Fight the honorable fight

Realize how deep I was

Mired

Or did I just…become…too…damned ….tired





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 Reviews of "Along the Way"
Reviewed by Bonita Quesinberry
Reviewed on November 22, 2003
Very well put, Sue. Sounds like you bought the T-shirt as a reminder not to take that "trip" again. Bravo! ~~Bonnie Q

Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on November 21, 2003
This certainly awakens the mind to think. Well done. Regis

Reviewed by Oirdheirc Mor (Reader)
Reviewed on November 21, 2003
Hi, Sue.
You certainly stretched this one out, now if you had only used rhythm you could have done it all in three syllables “Silly Me”.
I will know when you are better when you start shouting.
Big Smile.
Oirdheirc Mor

Reviewed by E. Richardson
Reviewed on November 21, 2003
very good...as the old saying goes....been there, done that...methinks you, like me, just got tired of it all...good job, Sue

Reviewed by La Belle Rouge (Reader)
Reviewed on November 21, 2003
Well penned and some very thought provoking statements.

Reviewed by Leland Waldrip
Reviewed on November 21, 2003
Perhaps you grew wise, learned from experience what you needed to know. Enjoyed the trip, Sue.
Best regards,
Leland

Reviewed by Al Swanson (Reader)
Reviewed on November 21, 2003
I thought this was very interesting Sue, I was very amused by it, Al

Reviewed by Libby Stone (Reader)
Reviewed on November 21, 2003
Truly interesting and thought provoking. Well Done.
Blessings,
Libby


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