Mostly Broke and Almost Famous

I started my job as the Statue of Liberty with a rough start as I was "sick" my first day. Too much Vodka, to tell you the truth which I NEVER do!!! I NEVER miss work on account of alcohol but I guess I got carried away by the Murphy and Vodka influence and drank too much and didn't show up for work as I slept in the grass on College Road until the sun was going DOWN, not up. When I finally woke up, I felt like I got ran over by a Mack truck. Fortunately for me, my boss, John is a very cool and understanding dude and put me to work the next day. I have since cleaned up and with some common sense, swore off drinking Vodka ever again....again! Once I get paid (because Murphy only drinks Vodka and won't loan me any money and I want to get a buzzZZZZ....zzzzzz AND Murphy will give me some Vodka in exchange for my company) I can stick and go back to my usual daily 4 pack of beer in which I've never had a problem with and resume my regularly scheduled buzz programming and make it to work everyday happily ever after.
In poem news, I wrote a new poem last night, do you want to read it? O.K.... here we grow......again!! Almost sounds redundant, doesn't it?... Huh?... I can't HEAR YOU!!!!

STORY BEHIND THE POEM: I guess looking back on the words I wrote, I am getting a lot of people staring at me on the streets and I'm not even in my monkey suit, uh, Halloween costume, I mean, Statue of Liberty dress, ha ha, if you will. Everybody likes to make the joke of me, a mere male in "Lady Libertys'"dress, gown whatever the F you want to call it. I personally don't give a shit but others get a kick out it. It doesn't mean that I am GAY for you ignorant fucks out there it just simply means I am comfortable in my own skin and gown as well as my own heterosexuality. And a lot of the "hecklers" and head shakers are my fellow homeless idiots that walk by and chuckle. To them I say this, GET A FUCKIN' JOB YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHITS!!!!! or sit on your ass and get your "crazy" and/or "crippled" check and move on... I don't mean to toot my own horn but I think some of the looks are out of jealousyor envy, not that I am all that and a bag of chips, which of course, "we" all know that I am..TooT TooT...ALL ABOARD!!!!  It's kinda cool that people outside of my costume know me as Lady Liberty and say that I do a great job!! For those people that "get it" I thank them. But I could not do my dancing and prancing and spinning the sign without the great MUSIC I hear on the radio. Thank you to all the musicians and D.J.s who know and play GREAT MUSIC, my life savers. I feel like I'm accepting an award and this is my acceptance speech, please forgive me, I almost thought I was famous there for a minute ;) The music also blocks out the "rude" stupid comments that ignorant fucks make while they cowardly drive by. For the most part though I get waves and smiles and a few dogs barking at me but I guess that comes with the territory. The other day was strange. John my boss got a call while I was spinning the sign and walked up to me to tell me that he had just received a call from a lady that said I was pissing, yes you read right, PISSING in broad daylight in my can't miss Statue of Liberty costume on the Circle K sign!!!! Something is definitely a rye at the Circle K...and it wasn't me pissing. I wouldn't do that if I was drunk off my ass at 3 o'clock in the morning let alone in broad daylight in a Statue of Liberty monkey suit.. Are these motherfuckers on DRUGS??!! If not, well then, maybe they should be!!! O.K. enough of bitchin' and moanin' I got to get back to work..BTW my current favorite song is "Youth Without Youth" by Metric...that song kicks ass!!!



WRITTEN - JAN. 13th, 2013 @ the side of the Cow Key Bridge



STARE AT ME

LIKE I AM SOMEBODY

JUST ANOTHER NOBODY



DO NOT ASSUME THE BLESSING

JUST SEEMS LIKE A DREAM COME TRUE



ACCEPT THE WAY

I LIVE MY LIFE

LOOK FROM THE OUTSIDE

YOU HAVE NO IDEA

AND NEVER WILL

WHAT I HAVE INSIDE



SO SORRY FOR YOU



DON'T DISTRACT

MY MISSION

GET A LIFE OF YOUR OWN

LEAVE MINE ALONE

YOUR LIES HAVE

ALREADY BEEN TOLD

YOUR MISERY

WILL NOT

GET MY COMPANY

PLEASE ACCEPT

MY APOLOGY



I HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED

YET TO THE BLIND EYE NARROW MIND

IT MAY SEEM THAT I HAVE NOTHING

THERE'S MORE THAN YOU PERCEIVE



YOU DON'T HAVE THE MIND

I THINK



I BELIEVE



I DON'T WANT TO ASSUME

AS YOU KNOW

WHAT IT DOES TO YOU AND ME

BUT THEN AGAIN

MAYBE YOU DON'T



AN OLD CLICHE THAT NEVER STRAYS

I HATE TO GIVE MY POWERFUL SECRETS AWAY



MY MIND IS UNDER LOCK AND KEY

GIVING YOU CLUES

TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY

IT'S UP TO YOU

TO PLAY SHERLOCK HOLMES

DIG IN THE GARDEN

OF MY BRAND NEW HOME

LESS

EVIDENCE TO FIND

WHAT HAS BEEN LEFT BEHIND

BARS

CAUGHT AT THE SCENE

OF THE CRIME



HAVE A DRINK ON ME

HAVE SOME DINNER TO EAT

AVOID THE PAPARAZZI AS I LEAVE

I AM NOT WHO THEY SAY I AM

I'M JUST A REGULAR GUY

TRYING TO MAKE ENDS MEET



SURE I PLAY THE STATUE OF LIBERTY

BUT NOT ON T.V.

I'M WORKIN' LIKE A HOOKER

ON THE CORNER OF

KENNEDY

DRIVE BY

BUT DON'T SHOOT

AND I WILL GIVE YOU A TREAT

YOU CAN LAUGH AT THE MONKEY

DANCING IN THE SUIT OF ARMOR

DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YA



THEY SAY IT'S A SIGHT TO SEE

BUT I CAN'T SEE IT

I'M BEHIND THE TIMES AND SCENES

I JUST MOVE

TO WHAT THE MUSIC TELLS

ME TO DO

AUTOMATIC

NO BRAINS NEEDED

TO THINK ABOUT IT



JUST LISTEN

DID YOU HEAR THAT?

WHAT DID YOU SAY?



NO I DIDN'T

COULD YOU REPEAT THE QUESTION?

LIKE A BROKEN RECORD



I WAS GUIDED

BLINDED

BY THE SUNLIGHT

DRIVEN THROUGH

THE POWER OF THE MUSIC

PROVIDED