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Lounge The Men Who Dont Fit In

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by Mickey Crimm, Jul 11, 2016.

  1. Mickey Crimm

    Mickey Crimm Well-Known Member

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    There is a race of men that don't fit in
    A race that cant stand still
    So they break the hearts of kith and kin
    They roam the world at will
    They range the field and they ride the flood
    They climb the mountain's crest
    Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood
    They don't know how to rest.

    If they just went straight they might go far
    They are strong and brave and true
    But they tire of the things that are
    They want the strange and new

    They say "If I could find my proper grove
    what a deep mark I would make."
    So they chop and change but every move
    is just a fresh mistake.

    And each forgets as he strips and runs
    at a brilliant fitful pace
    It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
    who win the lifelong race

    And each forgets that his youth has fled
    Forgets that his prime is past
    Till he stands one day with a hope that's dead
    In the glare of the truth at last

    He failed; He failed; he missed his chance
    He just did things by half
    Life has been a jolly good joke on him
    Now it's time to laugh

    He is one of the Legion Lost
    He was never meant to win
    He's a rolling stone, its bread to the bone
    He's a man who won't fit in
     
  2. redietz

    redietz Well-Known Member

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    That is lovely. I appreciate you posting it.
     
  3. MrV

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    MC, it might be nice to let the folks know that you didn't author that poem.

    Robert Service did, over a century ago.
     
  4. redietz

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    I interpreted the non-citation as "anonymous." Good to know the author.
     
  5. OneArmedBandit

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    Mickey great post, not shockingly the Queen of Google had to put her two cents in




     
  6. MrV

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    The poem is OK.

    The ascribing of a work (as of literature or art) to a particular author or artist is a requirement of intellectual honesty.

    No wonder OAB doesn't support it.
     
  7. Mickey Crimm

    Mickey Crimm Well-Known Member

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    I intentionally left the author's name out as a teaser. I knew you guys would figure it out. Robert Service was the postal clerk at Dawson City, Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. Surprisingly, he had yet to see the Yukon and the men in it when he wrote The Men Who Don't Fit In. He had several other famous poems about the Yukon. When the gold rush was over he went back to England and was never heard from again.
     

  8. AxelWolf

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    I take issue with that anyone could say that about anything at anytime for any reason. Someone might not research it.

    Someone might not revisit the thread even if you had told us yourself in a few days weeks or whatever, I thought you did in fact write it.

    Someone might start looking to do this type of thing and only confess once someone finds it and then take you're lead and claim they intentionally left the author's name out as a teaser.

    As a writer yourself I think you might be more sensitive to this type of stuff.

    I know how it feels when people write about plays they only heard about, meanwhile I was there actually playing it, and I know dam well they weren't.

    Someone was actually telling me about this great play they were on years ago, meanwhile there were only 5 machines and I had them locked up 24/7 until they got shut down.
     
  9. Mickey Crimm

    Mickey Crimm Well-Known Member

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    I temporarily left the author's name out as a teaser. I knew there were some who would figure out who wrote it. In my next post I told who Robert Service was and gave a short biographical sketch of him. Axel, if you are peeved about it then all I can say is excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me!
     

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