Luxury

[pecunium]

I am not a big fan of modern poetry.

I am also not a big fan of poetry of the moment... meant to get some aspect of the personal life into verse.

There are, however, a few subjects which cry out for poetic expression, common emotions we all get to live through, with and around.

Love and death are the most prominent of these, and while they have produced great stuff ("In Memoriam" and many of Shakespeare's Sonnets, by way of example), they have also produced a lot of dreck.

On of the members of my f-list lost her husband last week. From reading her LJ for the past, bit more than a year, IIRC, I would say she gave a very good example of the verse from Billy Joel, "You may love 'em forever, but you won't like 'em every day."

It has been hard for her. Today, she posted a poem.

I like it.

lahermite's I have the luxury of mourning

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[balmofgilead.livejournal.com]

"You may love 'em forever, but you won't like 'em every day."

I really like that line. Any idea what song it's from? I couldn't find it by googling.

[balmofgilead.livejournal.com]

sorry, ignore that--I sharpened my google-fu and found it :)

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Off top of my head I want to say the title is "Ain't no Crime"

(which a little googling reveals to be the case"


You got to open your eyes in the morning,
Nine o'clock comin' without any warnin'
And you gotta get ready to go.
You say you went out late last evenin'
Did a lot of drinkin', come home stinkin',
And you went and fell asleep on the floor.
And then your lady comes and finds you a)sleepin'
Starts into weepin' 'bout the hours you been keepin'
And you better get your ass out the door.

Ain't no crime,
Yeah, it's good to get it on to get a load off your mind,
It ain't no crime,
Well, ev'rybody gets that way sometime.
It ain't no crime.

Well now you tell me you love somebody
And you'll love 'em forever, you may love 'em forever,
But you won't like 'em all of the time.
Well now you tell me you need somebody
For the rest of your life you might have somebody,
But you won't want 'em ev'ry day.

Ain't no crime,
Well it's just human nature, happens all the time,
It ain't no crime,
Well
It ain't no crime.

Ain't no crime,
Yeah, it's good to get it on to get a load off your mind,
It ain't no crime,
Well it's just human nature, happens all the time,
It ain't no crime.
Oh.

And just as surely as the wind keeps blowin',
The grass keeps growin', you gotta keep goin',
And the Lord have mercy on your soul.


It's on piano man.

TK