Re: Poem Recommendation

[email protected] (Will-Dockery)
Newsgroups alt.arts.poetry.comments
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> msifg wrote:
> "Von Fourche" <khonakong> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Ok, I'm looking for a poem that covers this:  I'm rejected by a group of
>> people.  I know that
>> their rejection of me is wrong.  I know I should not be rejected by them.
>> I know I am their equal and
>> yet they still reject me.
>> 
>> Are there any poems that covers the above?  A poem that explains the pain
>> I feel and explains to the people rejecting me that they are wrong?
>> 
>> That's about as specific as I can get.
>> 
>> Thanks much!
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> When You're Strange
> 
> 
> People are strange
> When you're a stranger
> Faces look ugly
> When you're alone.
> 
> Women seem wicked
> when you're unwanted
> Streets are uneven
> when you're down.
> 
> When you're strange
> Faces come out of the rain.
> When you're strange
> No one remembers your name.
> When you're strange.
> When you're strange.
> 
> Jim Morrison
> 1968



Good selection, I've always enjoyed Jim Morrison and his combined poetry and music.


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