Thick As A Brick

Every lie is two lies, the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it. - Thoreau

a breeze of boredom

a frigate of feeling

an elephant of emotion

a trickle of thought

a monsoon of memories

cartwheels of criticism

candles on a birthday cake

a day at the beach including a clambake

raising with nothing and folding with a royal straight

living life in a boxcar like a forgotten piece of freight

a pinch of tobacco spit and chewed

all blowing a flute of fortitude

tears of denial over a dam

dressings of pineapple without the ham

meaningless rituals on a river of desperation

love on an indented mattress

an empty cranium of reason

truth in cracked stained glass 'neath a leaning steeple

separating your fingers to see all the people

lies on the sidewalk

lips moving without talk

shooting craps with loaded dice

telling the teacher that the girl next to you, whom you don't like, has lice

going on a shopping spree and never paying the price

pulling down your pants to slide on the ice

all part of an illusionist's magic trick

thin as a hair and thick as a brick

Author's Note

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see. It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance.” Thoreau

Reviews

[Ms claws]

Hi Pete, THIS is what I meant.
We are writers, we HAVE to WRITE!
It might not make sense to "everybody"
But it does to US.
Jethro Tull...a magician with words!
I love Blues Traveler as well!
YOU are ALWAYS a POETIC FORCE!
(Thanks for your reviews which I appreciate and respect your opinion.)

[Pete]

may god bless the brave one's who spill their hearts with words.

[carl]

fits right in with a quote I recently appreciated greatly . " Looking through eyes instead of with them." A really enjoyable slight of hand ride you have provided. - carl

[Pete]

great quote you serve up. thanks for sharing. always a pleasure carl.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

A lot of fun to read like snapshots from another world. I also love Ian Anderson. What a talent. Great stuff.

[Pete]

ah this life. ian is extremely talented. saw tull at the old boston garden when i was a kid, the first band i loved to this day. i remember that i bought a concert shirt with ian playing flute on it - don't now what happened to it but wish i still had it! thanks for sharing fgf. keep rockin' and readin' brother.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

Testing the waters here again...the site crash was no fun. But I might post something again soon. Keep writing.