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Summertime Rhymes- # 6: “Pity Party”

Christopher Hickey

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“Pity Party”

Come and join my pity party.

There’s a seat right next to me.

I’ll share more than you care to know.

It’ll only costs some sympathy.

Can I convince you, that life is tough?

That, misfortune follows me?

For wrong or right, or just for spite,

Fate supports my misery.

If I could list, you’d get the gist,

Of all my maladies.

You could conceive, all that aggrieves,

And keeps me from some peace.

Hop on my train, while I complain,

It’s nice when I can confide.

Your presence here, your open ear,

Helps deny the facts I hide.

It might well be, that I can’t see,

How my choices bring pain to me.

But at this table, you help enable,

A lack of accountability.

When the sky falls, Who’s at fault?

Well, it certainly can’t be me.

For, fate’s designs, keep me behind.

Please, take pity on me.

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Published by Christopher Hickey

Welcome to my effort. Yes, as a great procrastinator, it requires great effort to stay focused on something productive that matters to me. I’ll find any old excuse to traipse from project to project, and I rarely end up at the place I started. I find this maddening, and exhaustive. So it is with high hopes, and a greater grasp of self-awareness, that I embark upon staying the course so to speak. I enjoy writing. Be it blogs, fiction, poetry, etc. I love the craft and the act of creation, the art in and of itself, for it’s own sake and end. I am happy to be able to do it. Some stats: Born: March 1974 Education: St.Francis de Sales, Charlestown MA Don Bosco Technical High School, Boston MA University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell MA Bunker Hill Community College, Charlestown MA DePaul University, Chicago, IL North Virginia Community College, Arlington VA Harvard Extension School, Cambridge MA Place of residence: Somewhere in the land of metro Boston. It’s vaguely familiar and becoming home more and more by the day, but when you come from “The Town” all else fails by comparison. Favorite Color: I’m partial to all forms of blue. Favorite Author: c’mon! don’t expect me to answer that, there are too many. I enjoy memories of playing 80’s Atari better than playing any advanced gaming system that exists today. Some day: Hope to be recognized for my paper clip collection. As well as my 27 rejected applications to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailiey Clown college.

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