Every time I go to post a poem
About my partner or family, or another poet
That little guy inside my head says,
Hey You Can’t Say That! And when I ask,
Why not? He says. Are You Serious?
You Re3ally Don’t Know? But, of course, I do
But you can’t fictionalize everything.
You take away the bite of authenticity.
So I slam the door shut on that censorious little freak
but he shouts out anyway: DELETE! DELETE!
John Malone 
Tell that little guy to shut up and keep the poems coming!
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Hobbo, I like your ‘tude 🙂 I agree, he’s bossy, overbearing; I’m shoving him out the door !!!!
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Good for you!
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I told him, I’m not going to take it anymore!
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Hahaha John, love this.
” …censorious little freak …” Great line.
I’d tell him to fuck… oops… sorry, I don’t want censor myself. 😉
eden
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I already have, thanks Eden. I took Hobbo’s advice. But now he’s at the back door, banging to be back in. 🙂
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lock him in the garage and write on.
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will do, Beth; I’ll slip in a cup of coffee and a few biscuits so he doesn’t get too agitated 🙂
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Yeah. I get it. I like the idea of telling him to f off. I don’t like offending people. Or even revealing information that they may not want revealed. So the censorious little freak in my head is well in control of my delete finger. It’s a fine old line we writers tread between free speech and fisty cuffs.
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love the way you put that,:) me and the little guy have come close to ‘blows’ before but now I’ve got the backing of you guys I feel emboldened 🙂
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This little guy sounds like a real naysayer. I would take out my finger trash compactor abs squish his angry little head. ~liked you post!
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I like the venom of that; like that guy did to his ‘mate’ in ‘Fargo’, the movie 🙂
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I’ve seen students squishing my head before, so I know it works. 😉
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goodness; sounds like a jungle out there 😦
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What, it’s not so bad, kinda like a massage; swishes the sillies out; you should get a friend to try it on you.
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I’ve got a few who would like to do that 🙂
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Best therapy. If I could squash my own, I would, and frequently.
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nah; you don’t need to 🙂
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It’s even better if you leave the names the same.
You know, to embarrass the guilty. I’ve embarrassed myself more than once like that.
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good advice, thank you 🙂
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He’s at the back door banging to be let in!
Shall I let him?
No. not by the hairs on my chinny, chin, chin !
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Haha, of yes, that delete button… To delete or not to delete, that is the question.
(PS – I have posted my Villanelle)
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🙂 you have? I will duck over and have a look 🙂 thanks
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You can always tell the Little Guy the devil made you do it, so he can take up any issues he might have with him. (Lol to be truthful I have the female version of that little guy, she’s a bitch too). I half listen 😂 like they say no stirring the the pot more than necessary. 😅
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🙂 I know: you’ve got to pay them some attention: they get their backs up if you become too aggressive 🙂
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Lol yep
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Oy….they’ll just have to get over themselves. 😉
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Brilliant!! 👍👍
Yup, there’s too many of these imaginary folks hanging around on shoulders that really do need to be told where to go. They cling on for dear life though – that’s the problem!
Maybe one day we’ll both be rid of then once and for all. Until then, perhaps, it’s about focusing on building on what gets past them instead of what doesn’t. That might help quieten them over time maybe…? 🖤🖤
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thanks; I like that; even now he’s making a fuss: you didn’t run that poem past me, he says! I wouldn’t have let it through if you did !!
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Haha
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Well, he’s got at least 16 others ready to tell him to shut up with that one! 😁👍🖤
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yes, I think he’s well and truly outvoted 🙂
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Abso-fricking-lutely he is!! 😁🖤
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he’ll be moping in his little room in the closet in my head for days 🙂
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😂
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Lol
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the bane of all writing minds, relentlessly holding up some fictitious moral code inserted into our minds before we had learned about the ABC.
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well said: it is largely a ‘fictitious moral code’ and it has been cleverly ‘inserted into our heads’ —
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A genuine author writes about real life things all of the time.
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that is our job as writers: to reveal the truth as we see it 🙂
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There’s that pesky voice again!
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I know; he’s bit of a bully 😦
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Amazing that little guy can be in so many places simultaneously.
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he’s a bit of a flibbertigibbet, Ulle 🙂
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‘Cancel Culture’ is the oxymoron
of this current millennium.
A haven for politically corrected
morons, and the bane of comedians.
Keep on keeping on with the
freedom of poetic speech, John 😎
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I will, David — and I fully agree with what you say — I fear we haven’t seen the worst of it: we haven’t felt the full effect yet of the flow on linguistic consequences of ‘gender fluidity’ 😦
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It could well be a case of
he said, she said, it said 🤔
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it’ s getting that way, David; I saw that in addition to the gender labels LB … they have added a + sign to acknowledge the ever burgeoning list of genders 🙂
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Lol… Very good
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