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Mid-Major Cowboy

Luck is being ready for the chance.

About Me

Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. . . .Now I've justified this to myself in all sorts of ways. It wasn't a big deal, just a minor betrayal. So why did I do it? I could offer a million answers - all false. The truth is that I'm a bad person. But, that's gonna change - I'm going to change. This is the last of that sort of thing. Now I'm cleaning up and I'm moving on, going straight and choosing life. I'm looking forward to it already. I'm gonna be just like you. The job, the family, the fucking big television. The washing machine, the car, the compact disc and electric tin opener, good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, mortgage, starter home, leisure wear, luggage, three piece suite, DIY, game shows, junk food, children, walks in the park, nine to five, good at golf, washing the car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas, indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing gutters, getting by, looking ahead, the day you die.

My Interests

Making it out alive.

I'd like to meet:

Kahil Gibran

Music:


Movies:

Omega Man, The Hand

Television:

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Books:

Savage, Brother Odd, Cell

Heroes:

Underdog

My Blog

Math Memories and the Science of Words

Flightpath By Jake Sanders "The very truth, and the nature of things, though repudiated and ordered into exile, sneaked in again through the back door, to be received by me under an unwonted guise."...
Posted by Mid-Major Cowboy on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:45:00 PST

Who are YOU?

Out here in the fields I fight for my meals I get my back into my living I don't need to fight To prove I'm right I don't need to be forgiven Don't cry Don't raise your eye It's only teenage wastelan...
Posted by Mid-Major Cowboy on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:15:00 PST

Cant stop growing old...

I hold an image of the ashtray girlOf cigarette burns on my chestI wrote a poem that described her worldAnd put our friendship to the testAnd late at nightWhilst on all foursShe used to watch me kiss ...
Posted by Mid-Major Cowboy on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:19:00 PST

Alien Record: Log entry 1327.08 (Winter Equinox)

here among them  the americans  this baffling multi people  extremes and variegations  their noise  restlessness  their almost frightening energy  how best describe ...
Posted by Mid-Major Cowboy on Sun, 09 Oct 2005 03:35:00 PST