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All stays in the family
Another bag of potato chips
A slice of pizza or two
A bucket of 7up to flush it all down
Mommy's wearing her muumuu
the one with the little purple flowers
and the cute ruffles around the neck
She swings the flab of her arms around
and waddles into the living room
Her husband died 5 years ago from a heart attack
I am so happy to have my boy she says
He enjoys his comfort food
He is 25 and never had a girlfriend
Pudgy fingers dive for another chip
as he pushes the button of the remote control
I have some Hershey's Kisses for you darlin'
I want some of those he says
She gives him the kisses
and squeezes right next to him
into the love seat
They like to be close
He turns his head just slightly
inhibited by his triple chin
I love you mom!
A slice of pizza or two
A bucket of 7up to flush it all down
Mommy's wearing her muumuu
the one with the little purple flowers
and the cute ruffles around the neck
She swings the flab of her arms around
and waddles into the living room
Her husband died 5 years ago from a heart attack
I am so happy to have my boy she says
He enjoys his comfort food
He is 25 and never had a girlfriend
Pudgy fingers dive for another chip
as he pushes the button of the remote control
I have some Hershey's Kisses for you darlin'
I want some of those he says
She gives him the kisses
and squeezes right next to him
into the love seat
They like to be close
He turns his head just slightly
inhibited by his triple chin
I love you mom!
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Re. All stays in the family
11th Sep 2018 00:10am
A healthy and active lifestyle isn't that hard to achieve. It's okay to indulge once in a while but you need take care of yourself and the ones you love so you can enjoy life together for a long time.
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Re: Re. All stays in the family
11th Sep 2018 00:29am
Of course, that's how a healthy person would make sense of things. Food can become an avoidance though, like other substances. There is also often a deeper problem at play, which I allude to in this poem, but I kept it rather subtle.
Re: Re. All stays in the family
11th Sep 2018 6:08am
Re. All stays in the family
Anonymous
11th Sep 2018 00:11am
Comment on our society, Angel? And it's excesses, and indifference?
Very nice writing. I always enjoy your poetry.
Matthew.
Very nice writing. I always enjoy your poetry.
Matthew.
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Re: Re. All stays in the family
11th Sep 2018 00:31am
Yes, I was thinking about not only how people sometimes use food to cover their emptiness, but also how they use each other.
Re: Re. All stays in the family
Anonymous
11th Sep 2018 00:33am
Very nice! Love your writing.
Matthew.
Matthew.
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Re: Re. All stays in the family
11th Sep 2018 1:44am
Yes, there is also a connection to addiction and emotional enmeshment in families....you know, when a parent makes their kid into an emotional partner substitute...or uses them as their best friend...the kid can not individualize and become a grown up.
It is so common that many people do not recognize it.
Thanks for your appreciation
It is so common that many people do not recognize it.
Thanks for your appreciation
Re. All stays in the family
11th Sep 2018 1:34am
Excellent aim Ange... hit that target square on... we Humans seem to be able to become addicted to an amazing number of substances and activities...
This is really a strong piece... nice work
By the way you have a typo on the next-to-last line... it's *triple* instead of tripple...
and... on Line 5... "purple little flowers"... might read better as *little purple flowers* ... hugs, Ely
This is really a strong piece... nice work
By the way you have a typo on the next-to-last line... it's *triple* instead of tripple...
and... on Line 5... "purple little flowers"... might read better as *little purple flowers* ... hugs, Ely
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Re: Re. All stays in the family
11th Sep 2018 1:40am
Yes, which often has strong connections to our family of origin and the dynamics going on in that arena.
Thanks for pointing out the typos...will take care.
Thanks for pointing out the typos...will take care.
Re. All stays in the family
11th Sep 2018 2:13am
Dearest Angie, I am still trying to figure out why so many people are in so much pain.
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Re: Re. All stays in the family
11th Sep 2018 3:23am
There is an outside matrix and an inside matrix. Both cause suffering or the avoidence of it.
Re: Re. All stays in the family
11th Sep 2018 4:23am
Is that sort of like the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious?
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Re: Re. All stays in the family
11th Sep 2018 4:56am
It's a veil of lies and deceptions that define how we interact with the outside and on the inner level it is lies and decptions about ourseves. This is a simplified definition. We might want to talk about that further over another dinner or pool session.
Re: Re. All stays in the family
11th Sep 2018 3:18pm
... maybe because the pain is already within them, trustworthy paths of resolution are few and far between, and it's a painful process to resolve pain - so we avoid it, distract with food or whatever ...
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Re: Re. All stays in the family
11th Sep 2018 3:29pm
Yes, you are right about that. Many people are miserable and go the path of least resistance. There can be comfort in misery....at least it is predictable and known.
Re: Re. All stays in the family
11th Sep 2018 4:47pm