Holiday post

At this point I'm just avoiding learning music. Rock on, ladies and gents. The Rockefeller tree is up, the holiday shopping began three weeks ago, and the season is almost here!

I'm feeling the holiday cheer, or maybe that's just my secondhand inhalation of the holiday weed smoke in the room.

Happy Festivus!

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Differences

I like staying in, alone, listening to the radio

Putting on a few records, pretending I’m in the 1940s.

At times I shovel too much on my plate,

And love the wrong men for no reason.

And most of the time I don’t know what love is.

I think that I love everyone.

Just because I want to be myself

That doesn’t mean I hate everyone else

There are plenty of square pegs in this world

If you want to hold me tight

Embrace my differences

I don’t care for big, fake parties

I long for quiet gatherings

I can preach about anything,

As long as you give me the stage.

I need to feel needed,

I’ll give you the stars if you want them,

But don’t leave me behind.

You’ll never know kindness like mine.

Just because I want to be myself

That doesn’t mean I hate everyone else

There are plenty of square pegs in this world

If you want to hold me tight

Embrace my differences

My mind plays in movies

With casts of a million multitudes.

I play out sickly sweet scenarios,

and dramatic daydreams.

I think in music, and see in art,

I memorize faces that are set apart from the rest.

I bet they are special.

Maybe I’m too quiet,

Maybe your too loud,

Maybe I like to disappear once in a while.

Maybe I’m fickle,

Maybe you’re right.

Maybe I’m just bored too easily.

Or maybe you’re boring.

Just because I want to be myself

That doesn’t mean I hate everyone else

There are plenty of square pegs in this world

If you want to hold me tight

Embrace my differences