What’s YOUR Four am Like?

Posted on April 12, 2011 | 20 Comments

It’s 4am on a Tuesday
The regular crowd shuffles in
I sit alone at my computer
Wishing I had some Tonic and Gin

Been sober now for so long
The urge just goes away
Where did my dam cigarettes go
One habit that had to stay

Turned on Winamp to play a melody
There’s a song I don’t know how it goes
Bout some piano player thought a poet
And i thought I was the poet but
I guess I’ll just eat some dam crow.

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20 responses to “What’s YOUR Four am Like?”

Debra Elliott | April 12, 2011 at 7:36 AM | Reply

Thank you for stopping by Writing with Debra and for your nice comment. Enjoyed reading your thoughts. Now a follower.

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lolamouse | April 12, 2011 at 10:13 AM | Reply

Sing us a song Mr. Poet Man
Sing us a song tonight
Cause we all lost our muses a week ago
And we’re tired of trying to write.

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- booguloo | April 12, 2011 at 10:19 AM | Reply
  
  Pret tea Good. How did you like that last convoluted stanza? Getting up at 4am or working through into 4am sure produces some different stuff. smiles
  
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Natasha | April 12, 2011 at 2:28 PM | Reply

I think I may have eaten the same grow, and I KNOW I’ve smoked the cigarettes too…so seems we have a couple things in common. Enjoyed your 4am…felt right at home 🙂

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- booguloo | April 12, 2011 at 4:11 PM | Reply
  
  Glad you enjoyed it. Things in common are good.
  
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Natasha | April 12, 2011 at 2:29 PM | Reply

Whoops…meant to say crow there, sorry! 🙂

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- booguloo | April 12, 2011 at 4:12 PM | Reply
  
  At least it was an easy mistake; you could have written raven.. smiles..
  
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Jingle | April 12, 2011 at 5:19 PM | Reply

smile,

take a deep breath, you will feel better.

well expressed sentiments.
keep it up.
🙂

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- booguloo | April 12, 2011 at 5:58 PM | Reply
  
  Much better, thank you!
  
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Paul Andrew Russell | April 13, 2011 at 11:18 AM | Reply

If I was awake at 4:00am, Michael, be it still awake or just woken up, I would be extremely unhappy. lol I’m not good without sleep. 🙂

I worked nights for about ten years, and it was hell. Write? I could never keep my eyes open long enough; the places I’ve fallen asleep! Kudos to you for being able to write at such an ungodly hour.

Paul

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- booguloo | April 15, 2011 at 7:51 AM | Reply
  
  It’s my new Crucial SSD really. The speed it has given puter is amazing. So as long I keep being amazed at it’s speed the early hours seem ok. In the Navy I worked port and starboard, 12 on 12 off and you never new really if it was night or day unless you looked at the 24 hour clock.
  
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Rhyme Me a Smile | April 13, 2011 at 6:29 PM | Reply

Love the Piano Man references. It’s a great song and this is an AWESOME poem. 🙂

I’m having a little limerick contest on my blog this weekend. Stop by if you can. 🙂

Rhyme Me a Smile

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- booguloo | April 15, 2011 at 7:47 AM | Reply
  
  Let me see if I can get past all the baaaad limericks I learned growing up.. smiles
  
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Jamie Dedes | April 13, 2011 at 10:29 PM | Reply

Liked the poem. Love the wrap. Nice work, Michael. Exhaustain can inspire, huh? Poem on …

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- booguloo | April 15, 2011 at 7:45 AM | Reply
  
  And nostalgia.
  
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mypastmademe | April 14, 2011 at 11:21 AM | Reply

Love this, esp first verse 🙂

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- booguloo | April 15, 2011 at 7:35 AM | Reply
  
  Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
  
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Words Asunder | April 16, 2011 at 1:41 PM | Reply

4am sucks..but yours doesn’t 🙂

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- booguloo | April 16, 2011 at 1:58 PM | Reply
  
  Your blog attacked me! I about shit my pants. Thanks for your visit and your comments. Maybe in a bit I’ll go back with my 60 watt, sub woofer and all speaker system on mute. smiles
  
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