Another Five Minute Poem.

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The other person wrote a poem in five minutes apparently. So I tried to write whatever my mind came up with on the theme 'five minutes' in... well, five minutes. And here it be:

Five minutes.
Five minutes.
A lot can happen in five minutes.
A parade of ways to sell your soul
A million ways to fill that hole
Five minutes to cook a spoon
To boil a hit.
To prove you don't need all this 'love' s**t
Five minutes to take a downturn
To swing from one end to the other
To swing from hatred to lover
And back again.
Five times a minute,
Five times five times a minute.
A camel's back is broken by a straw
A life is affirmed by a whore
When it's the only way out
When loneliness is a scar that needs repairing
When everyone else has moved on, grown up, got laid, got drunk
Got stoned, f****d up, OC, watched punk'd
Five minutes.
Time enough.
Time to fall thirty storeys
Time to change your aim and move
Time to suck it up and prove
Who you are
Or aren't
Or could be in time
Five minutes to choose between beauty and crime
Five minutes
Wasted on saying what could be done?
Or five spinutes spent closing the door on your way out
As you go out and do it.

35 seconds

It took to read a poem
written in five minutes
so I will try to write a poem in 35 seconds:


thirty five seconds.
thirty five seconds.
A lot can happen in thirty five seconds.
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I can't tell if you're being mean spirited or not.

I'm having a lot of problems with that on WP. I think its because this is my first time ever on a message board of any kind, being until now pretty much a luddite - unfortunatly I have now come to realize the sad reality that in print I can come off as a total ****.

I really was not trying to be mean spirited. I liked the idea of your poem, its a cool concept.

Plagerizing someone is the best compliment you can give them so I decided to honor your poem by making a poor imitation. Unfortunatly the unique twist I decided to give mine, the 'thirty five seconds' proved to be my downfall and I ran out of time.