Sunday, September 26, 2010

DOUBLE FEATURE: "Winners never quit, and quitters never win."

Ready, set, GO!

So the saying goes,
I suppose.
Is a winner not a winner until a loser has lost?
Let's not forget
When you lost that cigarette?
It just goes to show that end alls and be alls are a slippery slope.
And though you will take this as your motivational cue
It's definitely not necessarily true.
Quitters sometimes win, thus winners are often quitters.
And that's just how sayings go.

I am going to stay away from rhyming now for the next 24 years, as I had been for these previous 24.

Write a poem that's better than this one. Please.

Let's look at this honestly though: "Winners never quit." That sounds true enough. But it doesn't actually mean anything. Losers don't quit either. That doesn't make them winners though. It makes them failed "tryers." Now, "Quitters never win." That sounds about right. It's hard to win if you've stopped. But, seriously, let's look deeper, quitting things often can become a great thing, i.e. any sort of out-of-control vice: smoking, drinking, gambling, Cubs watching, that sort of thing.

So, if we're getting down to brass tacks
Let's look at any saying as being mostly 'lax.
If you try something and find that you fail
Take it as your signal to take another trail.
Because there's really, truly nothing worse than wasting time
Ok, sorry, I will stop with this rhyme.

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