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BRUCE, HOLIDAY OR JOPLIN? Just another genius junkie Someone’s master and someone else's flunky Just another genius junkie, man Building crosses while cursing the inevitability of a plague Writers both vehement and anything but vague Some of them whose rhymes fell upon deafened ears until one fluent in his language finally dug deep enough into the meanderings and masquerade of his mind to find……………… Just another genius junkie, man All of them stringing words stridently together so as to weave a web of contradictions……. All of them with assorted and sundry addictions Those who waded the rapid waters of a psyche wounded by worry and worried about the wounded Pundits in pulpits Puppets in public places Standing on their soapbox wrought of metal keys and a thin ribbon of ink But don’t blink Because if you do you might go blind Or then again you just might find……………… Just another genius junkie…………………. They didn’t roll away the stone…….. They can only describe, with excruciating exactitude, the rising of His Holy Ghost Those wiser and infinitely more insightful than most………………… That one made us laugh by invading the truth with his dirty words and paid the ultimate price for doing what he did to urge us forward despite our slightly embarrassed laughter She made us cry by invading her veins with a vicious need to wave away the woe while slinging a bottle of whiskey and singing as if she knew that people like us who would kneel reverently at the alter of her song needed to hear her voice raised in majesty by a lady who ultimately proved there really is no forever after Those defined by that which is strewn and stranded far behind All of the conflicted who, to self-inflicted misery, were inclined Because if you read deep enough into the fragmentary thoughts scribed onto page, or listen closely enough to a song of rage heralding a heresy, or accept a few dirty words as fundamental to the facts brought forth and quite succinctly said dig deep enough and you’ll find just another genius junkie…………………… Just another genius junkie now so needlessly dead © 2012……PHREEPOETREE ~free cee!~

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Date: 4/9/2012 10:14:00 PM
Janice, Billy and Lenny did you loose your rose colored glasses and this is a slam or is it an ode of hommage to those who could convince the world that they had great things to say from a deluded mind. Were they such geniuses that life and death were a game to be played like Russian roulet.
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