I hear Mavis Staples sing gospel
to me
Just to me
She makes the hairs on my neck
stand up
(everybody stand up and sing, hallelujah)
When she shares her angelic-low-down husky voice
I want to weep
Weep
(pass me the kleenex)
Slowly, softly to myself
Thankfully I'm too fucked to care
(always there)
but then the hairs fondle me
Making me shiver
She washes over me
Oh,Happy Day
(oh, happy fuck-me-still day)
Trouble is, it wasn't
I struggled to do my job
with all my heart
(it's only a job, not a vocation, is it?)
I feel used and abused at times
pressure-dropped and fucked
Just in case I forget
it tattoos itself to my brain
Reminding me
That above all I am
only
Human
Not a miracle worker
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meh! Pah.. pphhhtttttt! okay.. now that's all better 
Written April 20th, 2005
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AHHHH kick ass! This rox my sox any day of the week. This is just, so imposibly real. I've been looking for something real for so long it's like real isn't even real to me anymore, but this is. THis is awsome, hell fucking yeah! Great WRite.
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aiden -
I love the personal feel to this one Gill. Those beginning lines are stellar.
Red -
thankyou hun.. for reminding me.. it was sort of one of those chase your own tail days.. lolol
But yeah..
Love ya.. you Aussie lass..
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For the love or the money. Whenever something becomes work it attaches itself to a stigma...a rutt, no matter the job.
I've sure you have worked miracles, we never know when something insignificant to us means everything to someone else.
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sometimes.. I think I'm checking hats though.. lololol thanks hun
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Umm yes it is a vocation. You are a nurse, not a hat check girl.
hehehe. Mavis Staples has a voice that brings tears to the eyes. Like this one Chilly but I'm sure your patients think you are a miracle worker. Eccellent
Desiree
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very interesting write not sure what my reaction to it is. to me it seems to be going in two different directions. kinda bi polar in its distinction. Thanks for sharing
God Bless
Tammy -
Yeah, I definitely dig this poem. Why is it that all the good poets are on today? Who knows. But in any sense, I'm not used to approving so many people's work. Yours is head and tails above others too. Hence the applause.
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pass me the kleenex lol. this was very real. i loved it.
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Very good write.
It is good that you have expressed yourself freely. The expression of ideas and beliefs are to individual right of entitlement. One's personal experience in life are ought to be said freely which I believe have sufficient significant merit for attention and concern not being misunderstood beyond their specific scope.
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you know this sings to me... excellent
billy -
I truly LOVE it!!!!!!
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