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    Odds and Ends, Blind Spots & Half Finished Ideas
    Odds and Ends, Blind Spots & Half Finished Ideas
    Odds and Ends, Blind Spots & Half Finished Ideas
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    Odds and Ends, Blind Spots & Half Finished Ideas

    By Paul Goat

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    Paul Goats 1st book is poetry for people who hate poetry (outside of music). Throughout Paul's life his friends have described his views on things as offbeat, weird, sarcastic, ironic, "right on the money". If you have a sense of humor, are willing to be honest with yourself and have ever let yourself be young, you'll connect to some if not all of these words. From your teens through your twenties, when you face life "on your own", your senses and feelings lead you to stand or run from time to time, learning hopefully what life really is.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaul Goat
    Release dateNov 18, 2011
    ISBN9781466030565
    Odds and Ends, Blind Spots & Half Finished Ideas
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    Paul Goat

    Paul Goat grew up in Wisconsin, lived in California and resides in Florida with his wife and five cats.

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      Odds and Ends, Blind Spots & Half Finished Ideas - Paul Goat

      ODDS AND ENDS,

      BLIND SPOTS AND

      HALF FINISHED IDEAS

      by

      Paul Goat

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011 Paul Goat

      For other works by this author visit

      www.PaulGoat.com

      ***~~~***

      These odds and ends, blind spots and half finished ideas

      are taken from my sporadically kept journals

      old notes, loose pages, and random thoughts,

      made from time to time. They are not complete,

      just patterns of thought.

      ● ● ●

      You will hear of an episode

      usually sexual, or involving drugs.

      later with nothing left

      depressed, down on myself

      I try again, so hard

      if I knew what to do

      if I knew what not to do.

      I fell so far this time

      don’t think I’ll ever get up

      not sure I want to

      there’s no one there for me

      if I did try again

      like the hundred times before

      but there’s nothing else to do

      except try again alone

      if you want freedom

      sometimes if you don’t

      ● ● ●

      First time to this town

      so I look with interest

      in a rented car that’s clean

      and smelling antiseptic

      gray skies and potholed streets

      brown brick buildings

      boarded windows and graffiti

      nothing neat

      miles of that here

      and there’s one re-occurring theme

      the yellow tape

      the crime scene ribbon

      On the barricades and trees

      from the fence gate to the railings

      to encircle our victims feet

      ● ● ●

      I tried to live

      one day at a time

      but I was too busy

      living yesterday

      and tomorrow

      to get anything done

      today

      so I gave up on today

      and just lived in tomorrow

      because yesterday haunted me

      and chased me away

      from living today

      but I promised myself

      to stop re-living yesterday

      and start living in today

      but I’ll do that tomorrow

      ● ● ●

      There’s been times I felt

      I could give up the ghost

      the ghost I chased from

      coast to coast

      I finally gave up just before I caught it

      when I let go of the loss

      I quit losing what I found

      there’s always part of me here

      and part of me never around

      downtown? underground?

      just shows up for a meal or two

      then wanders around

      soul confused

      wandering in the restlessness

      of the media mindset

      the media normal

      always claiming it to be

      exactly what it isn’t

      ● ● ●

      A man and woman debating

      the sexes at work...

      You men cause all the wars! She said with finality.

      I’ll accept that. he said, "As soon as you prove

      to me women don’t marry for money."

      ● ● ●

      Bliss

      she had a therapist

      and I had one too

      and we had another therapist

      together

      and when they finished their

      research on us

      they said we should get married

      the day after never

      they said I’m a little crazy

      she’s a little nuts

      but we’re real crazy together

      and if we ever go to having kids

      they’d be crazy forever

      ● ● ●

      I figured out my feelings

      in clouds of arithmetic

      I calculated oceans

      of emotion born reasons

      of why, why, why

      and still missed the ship

      just on the dock feeling

      feeling not sure if I’m glad

      I missed the ship

      ● ● ●

      If you don’t have confidence

      at least have courage

      courage is a choice

      in spite of fear

      confidence is just

      conditioning

      ● ● ●

      It’s election year

      this lie

      that lie

      lie about

      the other lie

      lay down lies

      lie around lies

      lift up lies

      move around lies

      shift about lies

      get down turn around

      talk about another lie

      ● ● ●

      Always waiting for that fateful event

      always supposing

      making incomplete works

      disjointed phrases

      you're not adequate

      you’re too negative

      wondering instead of working

      watching nothing happen fast

      I was standing at the base of a waterfall shivering

      overwhelmed, unable to think

      words and letters

      sounds and images

      pouring like a torrent

      a Niagara of conflicting, meaningless symbols

      spraying me with emotion and lust

      roaring intensity

      but when this hype hits bottom

      it becomes a river again

      an empty package in a trash can

      a credit card bill that went from

      had to have

      to can’t get out from under

      ● ● ●

      Run quickly no time to lose

      because to wait right here

      is on the clock blues

      paid by the hour

      spent by the minute

      is how it’s felt

      when your in it

      when the hours add up to eighty

      the state and mighty take the gravy

      what’s left is called disposable

      and that’s where it’s sent

      with all speed possible

      looking at the numbers

      crunching them up

      when the dust does settle

      I’m left with the dust

      ● ● ●

      My computer’s down

      I can’t get it up

      seems my memory

      just ain’t big enough

      my floppy disk

      won’t read

      won’t write

      I don’t know what I’ll

      do with it tonight

      my monitor won’t give me no color

      my printer just writes

      dear john; get another

      and the internet just bytes

      I’m so turned off

      I think I’ll read a book tonight

      ● ● ●

      Are you desperate?

      thoughts bumping around

      not sure

      thinking

      but too confused to retain a idea

      you sound angry, friends tell you

      but are you?

      is it something else?

      something just out of consciousness

      you just don’t have a word for it

      you want something

      but the words… not even words for it

      like a spirit wont let it be so

      not yet anyway

      no, you have to wait

      for some cosmic bus to pick you up

      and you hate it.

      ● ● ●

      You went to a job interview. It wasn’t much, stocking shelves and checkout. You have a degree for God’s sakes. The application, fill it out here, math test, ok. Call back for interview. Then the face to face, tell me about yourself. Well, I’m looking for work, part-time. (While I look for a real job), you’re thinking. 45 min. later you’re out of there and the second interview is scheduled, this time with two interviewers. They read questions line by line from a three ring binder they got at some hiring seminar. Who doesn’t trust them

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