So Long and Thanks for all the Fish

[Rob L 3,811]

Time for break, stay sassy my friends

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Time for break, stay sassy my friends

Yes gets like groundhog day sometimes stay well

[Jacque67 7,328]

Stay well.

[Jacque67 7,328]

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may tread me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells

Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides,

Just like hopes springing high,

Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops.

Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don't you take it awful hard

'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines

Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise

That I dance like I've got diamonds

At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame

I rise

Up from a past that's rooted in pain

I rise

I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise

Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear

I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise

I rise

I rise.

Maya Angelou

[TBoneTX 46,417]

The above, condensed into haiku form, see man:

I am the dream and

The hope of the slave. I rise.

-- Maya Angelou

[Jacque67 7,328]

The above, condensed into haiku form, see man:

I am the dream and

The hope of the slave. I rise.

-- Maya Angelou

Take a haiku off man.

Jacque 1916

Lol

[TBoneTX 46,417]

6,6,3... That's not a haiku, no ma'am.

[Jacque67 7,328]

6,6,3... That's not a haiku, no ma'am.

Never claimed it was a haiku. It's a koan...about not detracting....si man

[TBoneTX 46,417]

Yes, Dear, si ma'am.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Yes, Dear, si ma'am.

Yep. You shouldn't rush to judge...si man, dearie, never did I claim it was a haiku. Thanks, honey.

[Jacque67 7,328]

But if he stood and watched the frigid wind

Tousling the clouds, lay on the fusty bed

Telling himself that this was home, and grinned,

And shivered, without shaking off the dread

That how we live measures our own nature,

And at his age having no more to show

Than one hired box should make him pretty sure

He warranted no better, I don't know.

Larkin

[russandraquel 86]

Here I sit, broken-hearted...

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

They you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were ###### up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.

--Philip Larkin

[Boiler 46,364]

[Jacque67 7,328]

They #### you up, your mum and dad.

They may not mean to, but they do.

They fill you with the faults they had

And add some extra, just for you.

But they were ###### up in their turn

By fools in old-style hats and coats,

Who half the time were soppy-stern

And half at one another's throats.

Man hands on misery to man.

It deepens like a coastal shelf.

Get out as early as you can,

And don't have any kids yourself.

--Philip Larkin

That's the one;)