Dumb-Ass Lines That Rise
To An Occasion Infinitely
Greater Than Stupid Words
I’ve stories cute.
I’ve stories true.
I’ve tragic tales
which I can’t tell
without wailing.
I’ve got jokes
I deliver as smooth
as you’d want and
you’d laugh and
you’d laugh and
I’d say I had fun.
I can puff up a myth
and so awkwardly
that by the story’s end
there’d be no one
left listening. And
call me a fool if you
will and I am, it’s quite
true, but the ones I
tell better are straight
from the heart (or so
I do love to fantasize
and consider it but
the purest art). But
come what may,
no matter how you
take them, the ones
like that, they never
fail to get to me
and in the richest
and most significant
ways. And every
single one, while
perhaps with slight
exaggeration are
nonetheless as true
as true and (read
them for yourself,
I tell you no lie)
every last one
is all about me,
of course, and
how this poor
downtrodden
guy lives on
the very same
planet as—and
landed—
lovely and
beautiful you.
