WHO? WHAT?
WHERE?
WHEN?
WHY?
THIS IS THE STORY OF MY LIFE...
the no-money-for-the-therapist blues...
um, doctor, may i speak to you, please?
may i have permission to be excused?
you see, i fell and bruised my sanity
and i'm feeling mighty broke and used...
i used to have a streak of pride
that i was sure no one could break
but after demeaning tasks and rules
i've had all that i can take
i used to think people inherently good
no matter what or who
now i'm not sure of anything anymore
especially not them or you..
you ask me why i sing this song
why do i shout the blues
when you're downhearted and the world is wrong,
what more do i have to lose?
maybe i'll have a happy ending
no one knows for sure
maybe i'll buy a house on the beach
so i can run through the waves of azure
maybe i'll get the job of my life
making 175 thousand a year
or maybe you'll see me on the corner of connneticut & van ness
wearing rags, filth and wild hair
this song will not make the bigtime
nor will it be 2000's song of the year
you see, this song has no happy ending
because nothing in life is ever crystal clear
© 2000 LRJ-C
"I want to save the world, feed all the hungry little children, and
make sure that everyone--including the Inuit people of the Arctic--has
free ice cream for a lifetime. Oh--I almost forgot--Don't do drugs, stay
in school!"
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and show off magnetic nose ring:::::::::::
"Thank you!"
seriously,
i want to improve the image of women and minorites in the media and would
like to write a book and make a movie. i am studying publication
design at the university
of baltimore.
i also love research, teaching and learning new things, so i guess
i'm suited for the life of academia. i am an aspiring english professor,
and i am studying english composition and rhetoric at the university
of d.c.
i know that i am breaking convention by using all lower case and not capitalizing my personal pronoun, but i sometimes feel comfortable expressing myself in this way. of course, i do know the proper procedures and employ them when writing officially...
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For example, in my last job as a technical writer for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, I always employed proper form. I was required to be very adaptive for the various paperwork that our directorate's action officers completed to further the mission and goals of the customer. Furthermore, those regulations increased productivity and decreased work stoppages by 75 percent!
whew!! you see, writing in this informal style is for me the equivalent of slipping out of the high heels (for women) or taking off the coat and tie (for men) after a hard day's work. you're not exactly naked and breaking all the rules of obscene behavior, but you are within standard, yet comfortable.
i would not advise using this style on a test or essay, classwork for turn-in, or in business writing, however.
Good professional and academic writing is equivalent to casual dress
for work: overtly formal language is stilted and unecessary, but
the use of incorrect form and non-standard American English is inappropriate.
Comfort must not compromise literacy.
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