For thirty years
I had half a brain
And I didn't know it
You had half a brain, too
Together they made one life
Your half and my half
Now you're gone and I still have half a brain
How can I make decidions with half a brain?
Half baked, half cocked
Half out of my mind
Half of who I was
Half of what I knew
Half of what I made
Half the failure, too
Half of everything I knew is gone
Well, I never knew that stuff
I didn't have to because you knew it
What I needed to know was stored in your brain
You had half a brain, too
But that doesn't matter now
It's all mine
You made sure certain things were taken care of
I didn't have to think about those things
If I needed to, you would tell me
After stumbling through that year
And making so many mistakes
I realized one day that the reason so many things
were falling through the cracks is
I'm still trying to handle a full life
with half a brain
So, now what?
I can't keep living life with half a brain
Start over
Grow some cells
This might end up being a song someday.
9 comments:
I like both of them.
Hi doni! I was just thinking about you, and I was meaning to wish Lindsay Happy Birthday, and I came inside to write to you, and you've just posted this. I really like it! It makes so much sense to me. I especially like the line, "If I needed to, you would tell me." I can hear Jim now explaining something to you that he thought you needed to think about!
I think it's great that you're taking the Word class - I've been taking night classes at the adult school here. Yep, Microsoft Office! I just finished the Word part and I got 100% on the test the first time I took it! YAY!!! Now on to Excel! Learning is a great way to keep your brain active. I also signed up for a six-week belly dance class beginning next week. Thank God the harem pants I still own have a stretched-out elastic wasteband! But, hey, I'm doin' it!
Happy Birthday Lindsay!!!! *<:-)
(That's the party hat emoticon!) I really didn't need to be reminded, I'm just late..........I've always said you're a good egg!
Doni I'm really proud of you for getting a job, especially one you like, moving to a new place, dealing with Stan.......all of the stuff you go through, and for taking classes. It's not easy. But you're doin' it!
Don't sell yourself short - by now you have at least two thirds of a brain, don't you think?!?!
;-) (That's a winking emoticon!)
Mary
Hey Mary! I'd say Donita's working on a two-thirds brain now.
Donita: Poetry is not my area of expertise, but yours don't sound half bad!
-dean
Hey Dean!
As I often think, you're right about most of what you post!!!!!
Mary
Hey, Mary! Nice to see you!
Boy, everybody seems to be taking Microsoft classes these days. The new versions of these programs are waaay different from what everyone has been using for years. My office still has 2003 so I really can't use what I'm learning. Still, it's good for the brain. Yeah, I might be up to 2/3 by now.
I'm learning a lot by stumbling through Word 2003. I think I'm at the point where if I see a good job posting I can truthfully say that I'm "adequate" at Word and Excel. The only two categories on their application are proficient and adequate. When I filled out the ap for that counseling office job I had to leave that part of it blank.
Ok, I gotta go work on my song for today. EEK!
I went and saw Arlo Guthrie last night. He had something to say about song writing: It's like fishing.....a lot of the time you're just sittin' there, doing nothin'; every once in a while, a song will swim by, and you gotta catch it. Some good songs that should've been mine got caught upstream from me by other people. Just don't be downstream from Bob Dylan!
Mary
"Don't be downstream from Bob Dylan" Heh heh.
You know I've never seen "Alice's Restaurant". They play it on TCM all the time.
-dean
Yeah, heh, heh, that was a good one. I've not seen Alice's Restaurant either, but I can still sing all the words as long as Arlo sings it with me!!!
Mary
Arlo Guthrie is playing around here sometime soon. Now I'm thinking we should go see him.
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