Have a complaint?

Ever have a jelly fish pumped into your scuba diving suit.... into your ass?
This is a question you should ask yourself the next time you are having a bad day at work! (Don’t ask.)

Ever wake up Christmas morning to find that your gifts are 3 dead puppies?
No?
Well now, that fruit cake or those socks don’t seem so bad, do they?

It's all been down hill... for so long. Now I don't even care.
Maybe you thought I'd make it...or just don't know that I'm not even there.

Memories shadowed by yesterday.
Nothing has a hold on me... it's pulling me away.
My heart lives like a piece of ice - numbered days - melting all the time.

Tell me now that I've gone off on my own why I'd miss you?
Nothing on my shoulder I'm weightless but....
Wake me before I get the chance to fly.

I'd give you my chains link by link if life was just a dream....
But I'm only blaming truth for what's become of me.

The same chains that hold me down could set me free.

R.A.P.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Trying To Get By

Eternally knowing
and not to forget
Infectious and growing
but not to regret

Shamelessly blaming
the ones who don't know
smokeless flaming
and failing to glow

impossibly trying
to make it all great
unstoppably crying
to make it all wait

incurably yearning
trying to get high
reluctantly learning
trying to get by

painfully healing
the wounds of youth
constantly feeling
the wounds of truth

intensely ignoring
the things that you hear
immensely exploring
the things that you fear


Melinda Lantz Marinko
copyright 1990