Be quiet

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Can't you hear the souls go by?

Don't you see the children march?

Don't you hear the daughters

cry for their fathers?

Their brothers?

Their Mothers?


Be quiet.

Listen.

There's a war going on.

[MercutioATC]

1. Eeby geeby Gooby.

[TomInTib]

4. And that would be code for what?

Just wondering.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. I got on a tangent one night and ended up taunting the mods...

with "eeby geebe gooby"

At the time, I thought I was being really witty.

I wasn't.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. LOL! You remember that?

Oh, shit. I was hoping no one did!

:toast:

[MercutioATC]

8. Yes, you bastard. And I still don't know what it means!

:mad:


;)

[TomInTib]

15. I have learned not to drop my drawers in public.

Well, kinda.

[TomInTib]

2. Damn, man. You are rolling tonight.

And you are killing me.

I read the last one to Sweetheart and barely got through it.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

9. Thanks, I appreciate that.

Things read harder when you read them out loud.

[TomInTib]

11. That is my acid test. You can read great stuff all day long.

But put it in your own voice to someone (my sweet Beth) who knows from where you are speaking (and I know from where she is listening) and that is when it comes home.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

12. When I was married, I used to read my manuscripts to my wife and

there were many times when I got so choked up I couldn't do it.


I never realised it when I was writing it.

Odd.

[TomInTib]

17. The voice in your head doesn't get what the voice in your soul

can do with timbre and pitch and emotional meter.

When the harmonic of your spoken word is rattling around in your head and mind/conscience and walking all over the words on the page, weird shit happens.

That's the shit what keeps me going.

[sweetheart]

3. Do you hear the suffering

Its writers feeling others pain,
repeating it indignantly,
over and over for every body,
until the world remembers,
and all the while wondering
if they were forgiven.

There's no war going on.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

10. Nicely said, Sweetheart. Did you write that?

[sweetheart]

13. You wrote that!

:-) I just was reminded of the words when i read your poem.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

14. Holy shit!

Damn, I like my shit!

Did I?

That was good!

[sweetheart]

16. It is good

dancing with you, mate.

:-) :toast:

[Erika]

6. But W is visiting Graceland Friday with the Japanese head guy

He is such an Elvis fan. What do you mean there is a war going on?

Would a U.S. president yuk it up in war time?