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No Time Like the Present--Cliches Contest

No Time Like The Present (Cliches Contest) I need to get out of this place! So very tired of everyone's bromidic rhetoric. It's sickening... The continuous chatter of a dramatic existence. It's sickening... Who are these people anyways? Shhhh! I hear my mother whispering some old cliché, so far away, "There is no time like the present", she says, and she's right again! I am tired of this malodorous smelling room. Tired of all the inferior, chintzy plastic furniture in it. It's sickening... And all of the neighbors tumultuous affairs. It's sickening.. To the birds with it all, I'm better than this! Have confidence in your own ability to overcome adversity. Be a doer not a hypocrite of your own dreams. GET UP! GO! LEAVE, YOU NEED TO LEAVE! It's sickening... Grease me up for I am wedged in this room. It's sickening... Well I am done being a mouse amongst all of these rats! I'm looking forward and never turning back! At Last! The motivation that I need! The door is opening as I walk right through it, and never look back... Ecstatic... Smiling... Happy... Goodbye Harvard University! 03/25/16

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Teddy Kimathi

Date: 4/12/2016 10:27:00 AM

Greetings Brian, for your placement in the contest!!! ;-)

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 4/10/2016 11:01:00 PM

Brian, Congratulations on your "Cliche" win. Love LINDA

Brian Mcclain

Date: 4/8/2016 2:00:00 PM

Hi Brian, Congrats on your win with this compelling piece--awesome twist at the end. One minute you got the reader thinking you're broadcasting this transmission from mom's basement--then suddenly BAM--we find out that you are actually talking the nation's most prestigious institution of higher learning! Awesome! Cheers, Brian

Brian Davey
Date: 4/8/2016 2:51:00 PM

Thanks Brian it was a fun piece to do and I am glad everyone seemed to enjoy the ending

Dr. Upma A. Sharma

Date: 4/8/2016 3:24:00 AM

Congrats on ur very wonderful win with this amazing write Brian..

Brian Davey
Date: 4/8/2016 2:49:00 PM

Thank you very much and in return congratulations to you as well

Janice Canerdy

Date: 4/7/2016 10:31:00 PM

Desperation described perfectly! Congrats on your well-deserved win! Janice

Brian Davey
Date: 4/8/2016 2:48:00 PM

thank you very much Janice

Joseph May

Date: 4/7/2016 9:48:00 PM

Congrats on a fine win Brian

Brian Davey
Date: 4/8/2016 2:48:00 PM

thank you so much

Reason A. Poteet

Date: 4/7/2016 6:41:00 PM

Quite a twist; but even nearby Boston has some great schools to turn to. Congratu-lations, Brian on you placement, I enjoy your piece.

Brian Davey
Date: 4/8/2016 2:47:00 PM

Thank you I am glad you enjoyed it and I have since finished and graduated but you are right Boston does have a couple fine Universities

Daniel Turner

Date: 4/7/2016 5:45:00 PM

Back to say congratulations Brian on your placement in the contest. Peace my friend:)

Brian Davey
Date: 4/7/2016 6:41:00 PM

Thank you Daniel and the same to you

Suzanne Delaney

Date: 3/31/2016 2:13:00 AM

Surprise ending. Your cliche poem was engaging....no more mousy behavior. GL in the contest. SuZ

Brian Davey
Date: 3/31/2016 4:15:00 PM

Thank you so much Suzanne I am happy to captivate your attention and I promise no more mousy behavior

Timothy Hicks

Date: 3/29/2016 9:07:00 PM

Wow, Brian! What raw passion you have in this poem, with good use of repetition ... "GET UP! GO! LEAVE, YOU NEED TO LEAVE!" ... I feel ya. Especially love the twist, because most people think of going to college as the beginning of your dreams, rather than the thing that is holding you back. I've written about this topic before in a poem called Rainbows Dreaming of Gray ... you can check it out sometime if you like, you might like it.

Brian Davey
Date: 3/31/2016 4:13:00 PM

Thank you Timothy as always I look forward to your comments and I will definitely check out Rainbows Dreaming of Gray

Nayda Ivette Negron Flores

Date: 3/26/2016 8:40:00 PM

Excellent poem Brian. My best wishes for the contest

Brian Davey
Date: 3/27/2016 5:00:00 PM

Thank you so much I am happy you enjoyed it!

Daniel Turner

Date: 3/25/2016 7:05:00 PM

Hopefully this is just a poem. I hate to know you walked out on a Harvard education. LOL Looking back, I say live your dreams while your young and healthy! Love the write, Peace my friend:)

Brian Davey
Date: 3/26/2016 3:29:00 AM

Thank you Daniel and as far as the walking out in real life bit, no I didn't but wanted to oh so bad!!

Damien Knight

Date: 3/25/2016 4:56:00 PM

I agree super cool ending, who would've guessed?

Brian Davey
Date: 3/26/2016 3:27:00 AM

Thanks friend I am glad everyone seems to like the ending so far