Youth, I think it's time,
on your bike to climb
to rapture sublime.
Feel wind on your face,
freedom to embrace,
so that you may fly.
Watch the world go by -
on your two-wheeled high!
Turn left or turn right
to a newfound site.
The sun's a delight,
a shining jewel.
A beach trip is cool.
Take the day off school
and your pleasure, chase.
Youth, you must embrace.
The Donald or Harris?
Washington, spare us -
like Bueller, dear Ferris,
let's take the day off...
Take off the wrapper and suck it slow
This sweet chocolate treat
Reach back into the bag look for another
Make sure all the wrappers are left on the floor
Hide as much as you can in your bedroom
Under the bed in the closet or even in
Your pillow case so the grown up’s can’t find it
You only get candy once a year so make it last
Throw your costume on the floor you’ll get a new one
Next year, don’t share with your brothers they will eat it all
Next morning when your tummy is hurting
Take the day off from school make up a good excuse
See you next year make sure your costume is new
buttermilk biscuits rise in the oven
scrambles eggs are frying
the hominy grits is bubblin'
the french vanilla coffee is perculating
the plates and the silverware are clanking
you say good morning with a smile
i say the same back with a grunt
as usual, you do something silly to make me laugh
i want to take the day off
you pull out yet another new bathing suit that you bought over the weekend
i tell you 'i know i know i know'
you poke me teasingly and say 'uh huh, you better get your ass to work'
i laugh and smack yours and say 'have a good day'
you give me a wicked smile and reply 'now i want the day off too'
i shake me head at you and head out to face yet another day
you close the door laughing and it is then i hear the love in your tone when you say behind the door....'now what am i going to do with that man'
i enter my old hyundai sonata, sit there as the car warms up, and think about the many things that i wish she was doing....TO ME!
i laugh at my hard on and drive away happy and loving her more
and to think, she was 'the girl that was way out of my league'
Time
Time is always on time.
You could set a watch by him.
Time likes to fly every chance he gets.
The faster he goes it’s better yet
He slows down when you want him to go fast
And then goes faster when you just want it to last.
Time likes to make an impression with an everlasting mark
Called gray hair and wrinkles and that’s just the start.
Time can be cruel and take what does not belong to him.
Your memory and memories I’m so sorry to sound so grim.
So the next time you see time running and not willing to stop
Tell him this is my day and you can just take the day off.
05/22/14
Written by Erin Soares-Anselmi
I just want to take the day off
Walk all over the house, up and down the hall in my drawers
With a lit cigarette in my mouth
"Round the time I was supposed to be clocking in
Trying to meet ends
More I make the more they take
Today it's not gonna be that way
My old girl gone and took the kids with her
I'm not wrong ladies
But fellas!
Don't she have to leave in order for me to miss her?
TV is cool but it can't never take the place of a Marvin Gaye groove
Food for the soul + Soul food
Cornbread, chicken, and greens
Somebody somewhere knows what I mean
When you want to be left alone
A happy home stays that way when a man can stay there from time to time
With his records, cigars, gin and wine
Left alone........
Just for a while with no one else around to put him down
Or raise a fuss when the music is up loud
Simply left alone, Not separate
You'd be suprised how a whole lot of things would stay together that way
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