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1967 Critiqued After All These Years by Ted Sherid

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1967 Critiqued After All These Years
 
  I recall the many crumpled pieces of paper
It took to complete a single thought
The noisy typewriter and the worn out erasers
Would petition me to bring an end to their plight
As I would push myself away from the desk
Trying to get some rest before morning light arrived
The ash tray left smelling up the room with the remains
Of a pack of cigarettes smoked down to their filters
Yellow fingers and bad breath drenched in nicotine
Were the end result of hours and hours of self examination
It was a struggle to write anything back then
Let alone something to leave behind for you to read

2007 © T Sheridan

Ted Sheridan


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Not a member No 3 (9/15/2008 4:29:00 PM)
There's a greater tightness in your writing these days Ted... an effective punchiness that gives it more strength I think. I like this a lot.. and a little later got to know much too well the territory you were crossing then... jim
Greenwolfe 1962 (2/15/2008 9:07:00 PM)
I stopped to read this one, because I coldn't imagine anyone
finding anything in 1967 to critique. It turned out to be your
own personal thing, so my faith in your sanity was restored.
I spent the sumer of that year in Coronado, California. I understand
it was the summer of love in San Francisco but I didn't get any
of that or the drugs which went with it. I do remember the Beatles
came out with Sgt. Peppers that year, but I didn't see a conservative
spending any time on that.. If you were trying to smoke yourself to
death, that was clearly a mistake. Unless you wanted to take the same
flight out with Spencer Tracy, Claude Rains, Vivian Leigh, Woody
Guthrie, and Otis Redding. Paul Muni and Ann Sheridan made
the flight too. Perhaps you could have gotten a reduced fare with her
along. Beyond that , everything else stayed pretty much the same.
Glad you survived, it was hell for conservatives that year. I don't
blame you. It's been hell for liberals, for several years now. We
all have our turn. Anyway, I thought it was worth my time. Time,
is a mighty important thing. I assume you stopped smoking. If
so, comgratulations. If not, even more congratulations; for still
being alive.

Greenwolfe 1962

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