That's Houston and for my daddy (366 hits)
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Submitted by briokid911.at.hotmail.com (View user info) at 2008-01-29 02:40:10 EST
My Hero Told Me
He said I was just like he was.
An all or nothing sort of guy,
A bottle before sundown, a pack a day hero.
He told me to put my armor on every morning,
And face the pain that the world would unleash,
Like all the danger of breathing and speaking our own strange language.
We both new the outsiders wouldn't understand
Our wars.
Our personal attacks on ourselves,
The way we wished to die,
But had too many reasons to live.
And how angry he was when he realized
I was leaving to make the same mistake he had.
How he resented me following death around the world,
Seeking it out like a drunken elephant graveyard.
But we still spoke with passion about the finer things in life,
Brown-eyed girls, stoic-sick mammoths of the baseball diamond,
The virtues of a good cigarette in a city that is yours,
The fact that Paul Simon was so much better
When he was telling a story than when he was grieving.
He showed me slaughterhouses, and work,
And long, hideous journeys into the western world.
Along the way he taught me excess, he threw tantrums
At the mirror image of himself in me.
He shoved and mumbled, shouted and shook.
He vomited and slept.
He was a block of steel
From the days when men wore hats and suits
To the bar.
Hard, swaying skyscraper built of trouble and violent heat.
My hero said I could do everything,
And he said fuck the rest.
My daddy woke up and smiled when he saw me leave,
And my footsteps fit perfectly into his.
User Reviews
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2008-01-30 01:41:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2008-01-29 17:35:05 PST (#)
Ranking: 2
+2MCCALLUM
Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2008-01-29 20:35:05 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
+2MCCALLUM
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2008-01-29 17:56:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2008-01-29 15:27:08 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Huh? What?
Submitted by snagglepuss (user info) at 2008-01-29 15:05:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
<...i liked it.........>
Submitted by GrinMan (user info) at 2008-01-29 12:53:02 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by lostnphound (user info) at 2008-01-29 11:10:24 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
Needs more:
shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, mother fucker, tits, fart, turds, and twat.
Submitted by earth_collapse (user info) at 2008-01-29 10:47:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Texas still has my heart.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2008-01-29 07:28:15 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
impartial
Submitted by DeMoNiC (user info) at 2008-01-29 03:30:41 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Yeah. This was a tad on the 'I'm a shit post' side.
Submitted by Linus (user info) at 2008-01-29 02:53:01 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 Poetry surge.
Submitted by billiam5billion (user info) at 2008-01-29 02:51:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Like I'm a'gonna quit when my Father's name is at stake...
Submitted by billiam5billion (user info) at 2008-01-29 02:50:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
you are exactly right.
I should not have tried.
I get it now, I'll see you on the other side of false fame.
Submitted by Socialist_Joe (user info) at 2008-01-29 02:43:18 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
i ate my hat
it made me fat
something about a book
then something look
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2008-01-29 02:42:49 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
How did you not see the "how to suck less" post?