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Booze Hound on Regrets

Booze Hound On regrets .............

With the benefit of twenty twenty hindsight 
should I  have stuck to milk.
Eaten my greens and taken bracing walks,
filling my lungs with fine bright air.

Should I have stayed at school
followed the rules.
Been a model son.
 
If I had married and had kids,
Oh fuck you I have to admit
I'd of been boring.
Eking the years ahead

I always wanted to be James Dean 
and leave a good looking corpse.
A rebel or Marlon Brando,
but not in his final years.

With twenty twenty foresight
I see my self in an early grave
liver shrivelled like a walnut.
Bloated.

A cautionary tale?
Hell no take life by the balls
and shake it.

About This Poem

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Region, Country: West London, GBR

Favorite Poets: Pablo Neruda , Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, D.H Lawrence, Jim Morrison's lyrics,

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Comments

Geezer

Geezer

13 years 10 months ago

You can't live...

until you've lived. This sounds like too many people I know, including myself. This really set me to thinking. This poem could be taken both ways, as a true regret and in a state of denial, or as it reads. Just do whatever you will and worry about the results later. I can find little fault with how you have written it, just with the end result. Love ya, ~ Gee

lou

lou

13 years 10 months ago

Gee

Thank you

love lou

Candlewitch

Candlewitch

13 years 10 months ago

Dear Lou,

This sounds like me, before I changed my ways, LOL. I LOVE IT!!!

always, Cat

lou

lou

13 years 10 months ago

Lonnie

Booze hound not me lol

Lou