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Lounge act by nirvana

Truth, covered in security
I can't let you smother me
I'd like to but it couldn't work
Trading off and taking turn
I don't regret a thing

And i've got this friend, you see
Who makes me feel
And i wanted more than i could steal
I'll arrest myself, i'll wear a shield
I'll go out of my way to prove that i still
Smell her on you

Don't tell me what i want to hear
Afraid of never knowing fear
Experience anything you need
I'll keep fighting jealousy
Until it's bunny gone

And i've got this frien, you see
Who makes me feel
And i wanted more than i could steal
I'll arrest myself, i'll wear a shield
I'll go out of my way to prove that i still
Smell her on you

Truth, covered in security
I can't let you smother me
I'd like it but it couldn't work
Trading off and taking turns
I don't regret a thing

And i've got this friend, you see
Who makes me feel
And i wanted more than i could steal
I'll arrest myself, i'll wear a shield
I'll go out of my way to make you a deal
We'll make a pact to learn from who
Ever we want without new rules
We will share what's gone and what we grew
They'll go out of their way to prove they still
Smell her on you
That they still smell her on you
Smell her on you

*

O Captain! My Captain!


O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.


O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up--for you the flag is flung--for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths--for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen cold and dead.


My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
>From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

- Walt Whitman

*******

The Cold Within

Six humans trapped by happenstance, in bleak and bitter cold,
Each one posessed a stick of wood, or so the story's told.

Their dying fire in need of logs, the first man held his back,
For of the faces 'round the fire, he noticed one was black.

The next man looking 'cross the way saw one not of his church,
And couldn't bring himself to give the fire his stick of birch.

The third one sat in tattered clothes, he gave his coat a hitch,
Why should his log be put to use to warm the idle rich?

The rich man just sat back and thought of the wealth he had in store,
And how to keep what he had earned from the lazy, shiftless poor.

The black man's face bespoke revenge as the fire passed from sight,
For all he saw in his stick of wood was a chance to spite the white.

The last man of this forlorn group did naught except for gain,
Giving only to those who gave was how he played the game.

Their logs held tight in death's still hand was proof of human sin,
They didn't die from the cold without - they died from the cold within.

its from an unknown source

*******


"Only the shallow know themselves."
                                  - Oscar Wilde


"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
                                               - Rebecca West

"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem."
                                                   - W. Somerset Maugham

"It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything."
                                                         - Unknown

"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking."
            - John Maynard Keynes

"What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
       - Havelock Ellis

"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?"
                                                          - Scott Adams

"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language."
                                                       - Mark Twain

"To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep."
                                                  - Joan Klempner

"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."
                  - Voltaire

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
                                                   - Voltaire

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."
                                                   - Ellen DeGeneres

"Sarcsm keeps you from telling people what you really think of them."
                                                              - Unknown

"Somewhere, someones god, someones god is laughing"
                                               - 3 days grace

"Youre getting closer, to pushing me off of lifes little ledge, cause im a loser, and sooner or later you know ill be dead."
                                           - 3 Doors Down

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
                                         - Napoleon Bonaparte

"The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong."
                                                   - Andy Rooney

"I have nothing. Men fight for me because if they do not, I throw them off my land and I starve their wives and children. Those men who bled the ground red at Falkirk fought for William Wallace. He fights for something that I never had. And I took it from him, when I betrayed him. I saw it in his face on the battlefield and it's tearing me apart."
                                          - Robert the Bruce, Braveheart

"There's a difference between us. You think the people of this land exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it. "
                                           - William Wallace, Braveheart

" It's fine Scottish weather we're having. The rain is falling straight down and kind of to the side like."
                               - William Wallace, Braveheart

Stephen : I'm the most wanted man on my island. But I'm not on my island.
[Laughs]
Hamish : You're island? You mean Ireland.
Stephen : Yeah. It's MINE.

....later (on the battlefild):

Hamish : What in the hell are the Irish doing fighting with the English?
Stephen : I wouldn't worry about them. Like I said, it's my island.
William Wallace : Your island?
Stephen : MY ISLAND. Yup.

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
                                                        - Robin Williams

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."
                                            - Robin Williams, Dead Poet's Society

"No matter what anybody tells you, words & ideas can change the world."
                                            - Robin Williams, Dead Poet's Society

"When the media ask him [George W. Bush] a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'"
              - Robin Williams  

"A person who asks a question is a fool for five minutes, a person who doesn't is a fool forever."
                        - Mr. Whittaker

"Listen closely to your enemies, they tell you your faults."
                                                       - anonymous

"Fear is nothing but the anticipation of pain, be it physical, mental, spiritual or emotional."
                     - unknown

"Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
           - Winston Churchill (replying to Lady Astor's comment 'Sir, you're drunk!')

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
                                   - Winston Churchill

"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."
                 - David Brink

"Just because I'm hot, doesn't make me violent!"
                                  -Random Master

"It's entirely possible that it could be a definate possibility"
                                           -Random Master

"I invented the internet".
                - Al Gore, former U.S. Vice President

"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious."
     - Alan Minter, Boxer

"I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness."
                           - Alicia Silverstone, Actress

"During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails."
    - AP report describing Fresno State basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian

"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas."
                  - Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery

"Solutions are not the answer."
                      - Richard Nixon, former U.S. President

"Permitted vehicles not allowed."
                        - Road sign on US 27

"A bachelor's life is no life for a single man."
                                       - Samuel Goldwyn

"I smell the smelly smell of something that smells smelly"
                                                 -SPONGEBOB!!!

"They misunderestimated me!"
                   -George W. Bush


"Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl."
                - Bill Peterson, football coach

"The internet is a great way to get on the net."
                        - Bob Dole, Republican presidential candidate

"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada."
                                            - Britney Spears, Pop Singer

"Most lies about blondes are false."
                          - Cincinnati Times-Star, headline

"If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime."
                          - Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President

"It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago"
                               - Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President

"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system!"
              - Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President on the concept of a manned mission to Mars

"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."
                        - Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President

"Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer."
       - David Acfield

"I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding."
      - Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weapons

"I have a God-given talent. I got it from my dad."
                        - Julian Wakefield, Missouri basketball player

"We're just physically not physical enough."
                             - Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach

"The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing."
                                    - Dizzy Dean explaining how he felt after being hit on the head by a ball in the 1934 World Series.

"The world is more like it is now then it ever has before."
                                                 - Dwight Eisenhower

"The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe."
    - Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia.

"I have opinions of my own --strong opinions-- but I don't always agree with them."
        - George Bush, former U.S. President

"It is white."
       - George W. Bush, when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London

"If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight."
- George Gobel

"I'm not a violent man, but i really do think I'm going to have to kill someone here."
             - Mr. Bentley, Masterminds

"Non illigitamite tu mi cober undum."
                                   - Ozzy Pakston, Masterminds (means "Dont let the bastards grind you down"  , in latin though...dont know how to spell it )

"And they say you're not good with the fellas."
                                              - Ozzy, Masterminds (says this after his principle kicks some guys ass)

"Humans dont have feelings! Humans are numb from the brain down!"
                                                     - Batty(Fern Gully)

"The answer to life is...42"
                      - The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything

"I have a rock. Do you have a rock? No? Too bad. Because you do know I have a rock."
           - Amirah Nasr

"Youre the salt on my fries."
                        - Neelum Khan

"CAUTION: do not look at light."
                            - Hina Aziz

"I wanna do that!!!....WHIP CREAM!!!"
                               - imanski

"Sexy bunny! A sexy bunny!!!"
                         - Neelum Khan

"OOOO! You got boobies!!"
                     - Erica Rodrigues

"Oh my god! its like her eyes are in her hair!!"
                                           - Maria Siddiqui

"F is for friends who DO STUFF together,
U is for YOU AND ME
N us for ANYWHERE ANY TIME AT ALL
now here in the deep blue sheets"
                              - Neelum khan


A convo between Winston Churchill and a lady at a dinner party:

Lady: Winston, if you were my husband, i would flavor your coffee with poison.

Winston Churchill: My lady, if i was your husband, i should drink it.

Thanks for all the fun Daly

I HAVE THE EMOTICONS FOR ALLPOETRY thanx of course to AnnD *grins devilishly and whispers* i stole it from her page

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