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FROM THE SELF-HELP BOOK I WROTE FOR MYSELF


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FROM THE SELF-HELP BOOK
I WROTE
FOR MYSELF

as I watch
my son
receiving
his diploma,
my father –
in a nursing home –
is shitting
his diaper

yin yang

the empty socket
where the tooth
was extracted
has become infected –
pain
usurped
by agony

really bad karma

on the lip
of the lake,
the cabin
as soothing
as a breast
is struck
by lightning

act of god

ignore
the desire
to take
that really bad karma
and shove it
up the yin yang
of god,
it is all nonsense –
distractions
from the story
you keep telling
yourself,
the story
that will go on
and on
and on
and on
until the narrator
becomes
the listener.

This is the end of lesson one. Please insert CD number 2.

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announcer said 656 days ago (February 4th, 2008)
Love your title
I don't think I have ever commented on a spoken word of poetry piece here on macjams before so this is a first for me. I like what you have done here with the poem and the piece from a production standpoint. Nice stuff
Check out my latest song called It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
Warren Smith said 655 days ago (February 5th, 2008)
cosmic humor
Ha-hah! Great cosmic humor ... and I thought for sure you were going to end it by saying, "Please insert ... another dollar to hear the next lesson" : >

Your deadpan reading works to bring out the ambiguities of the text. It's serious stuff ... and yet it is not to be taken seriously. I like how you set up the contrasting incidents and then deliver a sharp denouement.

"Until the narrator becomes the listener" is a perfect way to end a long, long story.

I'm ready for more - please insert that second CD!
Check out my latest song called Pushing and Pulling
sschedra said 309 days ago (January 16th, 2009)
Wait . . .!
I only got one CD with mine! Those bastards ripped me off! Why am I always getting the short end of it? I paid good money for . . .


. . . stephen
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