[stylist] crybaby

[Brenda]

Shawn
that was Very thought provoking and true.
Brenda

On 3/6/2012 12:27 PM, Jacobson, Shawn D wrote:
> Here is a poem on the theme of this month's writing assignment "things that make you cry"; sometimes what makes you cry shouldn't and sometimes things that don't make you cry should (it's just the nature of the human beast).
>
> Jacqueline-thanks for sticking up for the rest of us on the list.  If I don't participate in the prompts, its not because I'm apathetic, it's because I'm busy or the muse hasn't struck.
>
> I don't think that I am a "serious" writer if that means that writing is your life.  I'm a working stiff first, a family man second, and a Federationist /writer/ other things after that.  I am "serious" in that what I want what I write to be good (or at least not obvious junk) and want to improve my craft if I can.
>
> With all that said, enjoy.
>
> Shawn
>
> Crybaby
> by Shawn Jacobson
>
> He stands there after the gutter ball
> Tears run down his fact and he howls
> with hot rage and shattered pride
> he was better than this.
> The Devil gloats "you are a selfish bastard.
> For you cry and complain over trivial matters."
> But he cannot keep from crying
> no more than the could keep from falling
> on an icy sidewalk.
> See he must take his seat again
> with biting tears of shame.
>
> I am a big boy now, grown up, responsible, mature.
> I dare not own the boy I used to be the crybaby within.
> The eyes no good for seeing are no good for crying now either.
> Yet there are days when I through gutter balls on memory lane
> when I remember and here the Devil gloat.
> "You are a selfish bastard; for you can no longer cry for others,
> but only for yourself."
> And I must sit in shame with
> the crybaby I was.
>
>
> Shawn Jacobson
> Mathematical Statistician
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