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Laugh & Cry
by Jon Goode

I don’t think love is what you think it is.
People start thinking white picket fence
Thinking house thinking kids
But forgetting the years and tears it takes
With the spouse to build
The foundation. They get straight
To the fornication & procreation without taking
Into consideration what it’s going to take to last and live
With this beautiful m#therf#cker.
F#ck around and discover
That her IQ is not so acute
and to boot her hygiene ain’t what it should be.
She's more skunk than flower bed
and she finds out that he flunked out of high school
And beneath the shower head he’s been known to pee pee.
He cheated on you in year three and got a virulent case of VD
From trani in DC.
You were ready to move the family
From GA to VA to CT
But instead went to weekly counseling
His vices he completely denounced them; and
That was over ten year ago
You weathered that rough sea
And now you been married for fifteen years or mo’.
You've seen the good bad and the ugly
And remained in that thing…
Now that’s how real love survives no doubt,
No matter that stuff Mary J Blige be singing ‘bout

I think when it comes to love
You were sold a bill of lading.
Told it's all about feeling great and
Feeling waves of feelings cascading
Across your landscape.
Until the day when
The waters part and depart
and she walks all over your dry heart
like Egyptian foes pursuing Moses and the Hebrews escaping.
it was written I supposed when the earth was created
But it’s getting hard to hold it all together when she’s taking
The kids and the cash in the account
Now her ass is out in the street speed dating.
You're using weed and speed when you need to be using restraint and patience.
Take it easy compandre before you find yourself in Sierra Madre
Taking the cops on a slow speed chase in
A white bronco;
Gun against your dome
Black gloves thrown out the window
Onto the interstate facing
Life in the state pen
With a bunk mate
That Loves to hate killers
But loves to make love to straight men
Already awaiting.
Whether you choose your own adventure
Or believe in fate friend
Think that love thing through
I suggest you start today man.

I think when it comes to love
You may have been sold a scripture.
Told to picture Proverbs 18:22
Where it says any who finds a wife finds a good thing
But these days you better be dam sure you find a good ring
Before you get all down on the dam floor and things
Dirtying up your dungarees, the knees of your trousers
Trying to please and espouse her
With that hood bling.
N!@@a please
I know how ya
Go to Candler flea market
For bootleg CD’s,
gold teeth and shells
But you can’t hand her that b#llsh!t you get
From a cat named Ishmael in booth five aisle twelve.
She's liabel to hit you with a bible and tell your crazy ass to go to hell
Or at least stop being lazy and idle and take your crazy ass to Zales.
I know they say it’s not about the ring, I laugh because I can’t tell.
It’s like a golden calf because the idol is real;
And if the marriage don’t last or the engagement fails
She’ll hock that thing at the Candler pawn shop
From a fraction of the cost; a real TJ Maxx of a deal.

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from Life's Got A Way​.​.​., released September 5, 2013

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Jon Goode Atlanta, Georgia

Jon Goode is an Emmy nominated poet & playwright . He is the host of The Moth Atlanta. Jon's debut collection of poems and short stories, Conduit, was published in 2015 and held the #1 spot on Amazon for 12 weeks. His debut novel Mydas was published in October of 2020 and was a #1 new release on Amazon for 5 weeks. Both are available. ... more

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