the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by

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My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day.

I told them this story:
In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.

Tom Waits

Tag: humor individuality music non-conformity musician

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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

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I've never been a fan of personality-conflict burgers and identity-crisis omelets with patchouli oil. I function very well on a diet that consists of Chicken Catastrophe and Eggs Overwhelming and a tall, cool Janitor-in-a-Drum. I like to walk out of a restaurant with enough gas to open a Mobil station.

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When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.

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I ain't got no spare/I ain't got no jack/I don't give a shit/I'm not going back

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The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.

Tom Waits

Tag: music cynicism beat-poetry

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I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.

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The piano has been drinking, not me.

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Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending, the pursuit you see and never the arrest" - Tom Waits "Foreign Affairs

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