Another example of the mastery of Mitch Teemley:
This is one of my darker posts. And for a good reason. Please read through to the end. A true story.
He said he would kill them
In his time, in his way
And yet they let him stay
Even before they loved each other
They loved him
Faithfully and steadfastly
And when they married
He moved in with them
Years fell away
They had children
Dreamed dreams
Lost their dreams
Then found them again
Aged a little
And aged a little more
They shared everything with him
Everything
Yet he never ceased to whisper,
“One day I will kill you”
By now it seemed a carnal jest
A monkeyshine
And then he killed the man
The woman was gutted, emptied
The man had been everything to her
“Not you!” she screamed,
“It was never you I loved!”
And yet she let him stay
A generation passed
Before she…
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Love Mitch’s humor and irony. God bless!
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I watched my grandfather go from lung cancer. Treatment in those days was not much. Still that didn’t keep me from taking up chewing tobacco when my high-school friends offered it. Took me 10 years of being totally quit to get past the craving. That was over 40 years ago and I am still grateful to be free of the habit every time I think of it. I wasn’t too bright starting. Just sayin’.
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Agreed. I too can attest nicotine in any form is an evil best to be avoided.
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As I told Mitch, I was volunteering at the local hospital, singing to the cancer patients. I was asked to come to the room of a woman dying of lung cancer. Her family was gathered around, crying, as she gasped for air and I sang “Amazing Grace.” I remember thinking that if every middle school or high school student I had who had tried cigarettes and was flirting with the habit could spend five minutes in that room, it would give them nightmares, and they’d never light up again.
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It’s worth a try.
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That packs a wallop! I’m waiting to see what 18 years of second-hand smoke is going to do to me. My dad quit smoking after I went to college, and he lived to be almost 90.
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My dad was a chain smoker, so no surprise I smoked at age 10. I stopped and started every decade or so. Stopping all forms of nicotine altogether was my life’s greatest battle. I tell all my young friends, “DO NOT EVEN TRY IT!”
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It’s so much easier to never start smoking than to try to quit.
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True that!
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