Household Name

from JoeUser Forums
I always thought I'd be a household name,
like Michael Jackson,
but look what happened there,
maybe I could've settled for a trend,
a generational fad,
like french-rolled stone-washed jeans,
those are bound to come back in style at some point right?

Pogoballs, or even pogs maybe,
but I'm not even a billboard,
or a jingle you can't get out of your head for denture creme,
I never amounted to much fame.

My legacy limited to the lives touched by a cigarette butt,
lying under a bus stop shelter bench in St. Paul,
smoked only 1/2 way by the original purchaser who left the lipstick marks,
and flicked it out of the window of a lexus SUV,
a gracious gift for a vagavond who stopped in the shelter to rest his feet,
a share 1/2 a misty 120 with a fellow drifter addict,
who, takes a second look at the cigarette's host after noticing the lipstick on his third drag.

Yes, I always hoped I'd be inhaled deeply by those who never even knew me,
or where I came from,
with even less of a desire to care,
that's bound to come back in style at some point right?
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Yes, I always hoped I'd be inhaled deeply by those who never even knew me,
or where I came from,
with even less of a desire to care,

This is definately my favorite part. And to tell you the truth, I'm glad you're not a house hold name. You're like that great hidden restraurant that not many people know about, but definately makes the list of places that those that DO know about it love and frequent often.

It gives bragging rights to those that know you, and gives us that chance to talk you up to those "less fortunate".
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Yes, I always hoped I'd be inhaled deeply by those who never even knew me, or where I came from,

you are.

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