Autobiography

[saw]

Too bad nerds weren't hip when I was sixteen,
today they're cool, back then no one thought
my dorkiness was mysterious, no one thought
I was complex, they just teased the shit out of me.

Kids can be cruel in tenth grade, they picked on me
unmercifully, I didn't fit in....today my hand-me-downs
would be cutting edge, I would be Bohemian,
but in 1964, I was a loser..............a geek.

I dreamed of being popular, got an idea,
threw a small boulder through the cellar door
of old man Wilson's, walked out of there with his
Smith Corona which made me famous,

every kid knew my name, I was hooked,
my life of crime had begun in earnest.
You should have seen the look on Patty Kowalchek's
face when I drove up in front of her white picket fence

in that two-toned convertible, she was turned-on
by my hot-wiring prowess, the hottest chick
at Mt. Sidney High, her arm 'round my neck
as we cruised the strip, I now knew the formula

for success, knew how to get noticed....
Now, I Had Respect !
My taste for women and money would land me
in this place, guess I got a little careless,

and here I am.....for the rest of my life.
At first they picked on me, didn't have the right
tattoos, the right walk, I was the dorky new inmate,
but I knew just what to do.

128354 stared with wide eyes
as his blood spurted, then oozed on the cell block floor
as I slowly removed the shiv from his belly.
Now, I Had Respect.

[Perdida]

whoa, powerful writing.

Enjoyed.

[constantine]

saw breaks bad! cool!

[mnaz]

Crime pays. Just ask Halliburton and Exxon. Or even the Gates mob as it came up. They all livin' large...

[saw]

thanx perdida, dino, mnaz......yeah mnaz those guys are in the
Criminals Hall of Shame......thanx for checking in

[hester_prynne]

Yow! Ow!
Damn this is good.....
H

[saw]

thanx hester...always good to hear from ya.........

[goldenmyst]

Saw, your poetic story telling comes through raw and powerful in this. I loved every line.

John