1000 things to do before i die

1. be a part of a completely spontaneous but perfectly choreographed musical number with random people i don't know
2. learn to fly a plane
3. see the arora borealis
4. drive across country alone
5. save someone's life
6. see a sunrise and sunset on every continent (maybe not antarctica)
7. experience complete silence for an hour
8. demolish a brand new sports car with a sledge hammer, chainsaw, and axe
9. get a poem published
10. write a book
11. have a personal library (min of 100 books)
12. read every book in my personal library
13. fake my own death
14. do my taxes
15. learn japanese
16. learn spanish
17. cook a meal worthy of fine china
18. be an ircop
19. write a program, game, etc... that ppl actually buy
20. debate a political pundit
21. debate a US senator
22. meet a foreign head of state
23. paint a mural illegally
24. get married
25. have kids
26. attend my kids' graduation
27. be independent
28. ride a motorcycle
29. finish the omnivore's 100 list
30. make a viral video
31. see a sumo wrestling match in japan
32. give $100,000 to charity in one year
33. design a shoe and have it sold nationwide
34. bake a souffle
35. sail in the Mediterranean
36. ride a boat out far enough that i can't see land
37. learn kendo
38. sword fight
39. parachute
40. parasail
41. base jump
42. bungee jump
43. learn to write backwards
44. learn to write with my left hand
45. learn to skateboard
46. eat an entire pizza on my own
47. talk back to my parents
48. get an honorary degree
49. grow a respectable beard
50. get "where the fuck was i yesterday?" drunk
51. drink an old fine wine
52. get quoted in a book
53. climb an aztec pyramid
54. debate Dr. Cornel West
55. commit insurance fraud
56. spend an entire 24 hours doing nothing but listening to music
57. learn to ride a unicycle
58. learn to juggle
59. catch a squirrel
60. punch an emo
61. get hit by a car and live
62. discover a dinosaur bone/fossil
63. go skiing
64. ride in a trolley
65. eat an animal i killed other than fish
66. set-up 1000 dominoes perfectly and watch them fall
67. drink a soda right off the line
68. eat a chip off the line
69. dine and ditch
70. hitchhike
71. jump into a moving car
72. attend a movie premier
73. go a day without boredom
74. see a psychiatrist
75. perform an emergency trach
76. give a random homeless guy $1000
77. swim with dolphins
78. post 100 times on xc in a day
79. get into a bar fight
80. lose a fight with a complete stranger
81. win a fight with a complete stranger
82. build a shed
83. fix up a junker of a car
84. own a house
85. sell a house
86. go to a crazy (comic/game/anime) convention
87. drive through rush hour traffic in a big city
88. go rock climbing
89. see all seven wonders of the world in person
90. learn to play golf
91. attend a major sporting event
92. go skinny dipping at night
93. watch a NASA launch
94. sleep in a hotel penthouse with a view
95. be an audience member of SNL
96. take my kids to get slimed in Orlando
97. get slimed in Orlando
98. make a ship in a bottle
99. write a message in a bottle
100. ride a camel through the desert
101. drift in a canoe and read a good book
102. see a solar eclipse
103. sit beneath a waterfall
104. forgive my parents
105. go white water rafting
106. go scuba diving
107. kiss the Blarney Stone (preferably while atleast a little drunk)
108. buy a car with a suitcase of cash
109. create my own website
110. run a marathon
111. go to the top of the statue of liberty
112. learn to salsa
113. learn to ballroom dance
114. ride a gondola in Venice
115. walk on hot coals
116. run with bulls
117. go to october fest in germany
118. learn calligraphy
119. master Esquire Magazines "75 Skills Every Man Should Master"
120. say something original and profound spontaneously
121. have a quote for every situation
122. see every movie in AFC's 10 top 10 and 100 lists
123. ride in a submarine
124. collect something to the brink of obsession
125. find something a museum accepts into a display
126. learn to meditate and do it every day for a month
127. read an ancient text in its original language
128. catch a fist
129. write an autobiography
130. have my portrait painted
131. build an exact replica of an architectural marvel out of something like toothpicks
132. win a build a bridge competition with pontifax
133. take a flight first class, 
134. catch a fish with my hands
135. catch a fish with a spear
136. catch a fish with a bow and arrow i fashioned myself
137. ride on a hot air balloon
138. hike the wondertrail around Mt Rainier
139. get into a youtube worthy prankwar
140. work on a presidential campaign
141. read a dictionary
142. read an encyclopedia
143. become an expert in a frivolous field
144. make a snowman
145. stop and help someone broken down on the side of the road....don't get stabbed
146. change a tire for a stranger
147. go 100 on a highway by myself
148. build a raft and float on it
149. cut down a tree
150. own at least one expensive suit
151. join a gun club
152. learn CPR
153. experience weightlessness
154. ride in a jet
155. ride in a tank
156. pet a tiger
157. hold a snake longer than my wingspan
158. prank a stranger
159. spend a weekend in vegas
160. forget parts of a weekend in vegas
161. brew my own beer
162. talk a cop out of giving me a ticket
163. bet on a horse and win
164. blow glass
165. widdle
166. try sake
167. learn to read braille
168. own a gun
169. dress as a mime and perform a routine in public
170. be a street performer in a foreign nation
171. learn to DJ
172. know a band to the point of obsession
173. DJ at a rave
174. go to a full service gas station and have my gas pumped for me
175. bowl over 250
176. see a lion in the wild
177. create a mathematical theorem
178. take a 40+ day vow of silence
179. learn to riverdance
180. get a high score in an arcade game
181. start a webcomic
182. frenchkiss in france
183. spend an entire day meditating
184. throw a boomerang and have it come back
185. make my own musical montage
186. ride on a train
187. ride on a subway
188. get a professional massage
189. take massage lessons
190. get a call through to rush limbaugh
191. get a call through to shawn hannity
192. get a call through to neil boortz
193. get another call through to hannity and troll him
194. try caviar
195. design a concept car
196. organize my iTunes library
197. draw a perfect circle freehand
198. choreograph a fight scene and get in a staged fight at a bar
199. make a list of the 50 corniest pick-up lines
200. use my 50 corniest pick-up lines in one night
201. use my 10 corniest pick-up lines on one lady
202. write a letter by hand with a quill
203. ride a horse on cobblestone roads
204. finish this list
205. eat a burrito
206. sleep on a hammock
207. mix my own barbecue sauce
208. bath in a river
209. solve a rubiks cube in 5 min or less
210. watch King Lear performed live
211. write my will
212. learn and become good at archery
213. try an inside out burger
214. drive a mile on the wrong side of a highway
215. drive a convertible with my top down
216. eat a stolen candy bar in a grocery store
217. go through survivalist training
218. spend a week in solitary confinement
219. pass the bar
220. ace the LSAT
221. ice skate on a frozen over lake
222. sculpt ice
223. drive a golf cart
224. fry an egg on the desert sand
225. keep my eyes closed or blind folded for a week
226. eat at a 5 star restaurant
227. stay in a 5 star hotel
228. take a 12+ hour flight
229. attend a political party convention
230. run over a car
231. write a complete wiki article that stays
232. pose with a bored look on my face for a scary roller coaster picture
233. get a girl i just met to pose kissing on a roller coaster for the pic
234. win a case
235. train a pet
236. climb an elevator shaft
237. be a part of a Renaissance fair
238. make a bomb w/o instructions
239. learn to use a lasso
240. scale a buliding with a grappeling hook
241. scare someone shitless
242. be scared shitless
243. audition to be in a movie
244. punch a cow
245. tip someone more than 100%
246. eat an apple right off a tree
247. eat a strange fruit I've never tried right off a wild tree
248. set myself on fire
249. experience absolute darkness
250. flee the country on spontaneous whim
251. water ski
252. go to a large toys store as a grown man and pretend to be a kid
253. go to a non costume party in a costume
254. pole vault
255. scream at the top of my lungs
256. stay awake for 72 hours straight
257. eat a raw egg
258. ride a horse in the desert
259. ride a camel
260. ride a horse on water
261. jump over a river with a horse
262. write a sonnet
263. play a part in a battle reenactment
264. streak
265. read a major congressional bill in its entirety
266. make a stick fight animation
267. down a 40
268. buy a terabyte ipod or other media player
269. speak in front of a congressional panel
270. play in a poker tournament
271. hit the 8ball in on break
272. get a credit card w/o a limit
273. grow a goatee
274. get season tickets to the Panthers and go to every game.
275. go to a Panther's game in the box

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My Poetry

In Love,
so true,
so bliss,
so blind,
It claims my breath,
It tears my mind,
Love,
be you a sweet sensation,
heal the wounds of this war-torn nation,
Love,
not lust,
never a tease,
cause the pangs of death to ease

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I often wish to live 9 lives
I'd be born on every continent-
even Antartica
I'd have 9 completely different careers.
9 different sets of friends.
I'd make different choices.
I'd be 9 different people.

I said I often wish to live 9 lives
to fall in love with you nine times.

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A letter never written,
prose still plays my mind
A poem never given,
still read it from time to time
Feelings I'll never share,
love never found for she is rare,
Sinking,
I'm sinking into thoughts
I wish not to be thinking,
I tell my self she likes me,
and returns the crush
I tell myself, don't tell her yet-
I mean, whats the rush.
The time is now!
I must be brave!
But if she says no,
my heart will cave.
COWARD!
I'm a punk.
Never good enough,
my poem stunk.

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Yesterday's sun has set
and yet another risen,
but memories still remain
some left unforgiven

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Sanity is inhibited,
controlled by fears
and driven by goals
instead of passions.

Insanity is without inhibitions,
psychotic,
without fear or consequence,
pure, natural

Sanity breeds frustration
Insanity calms desire

The Sane oppress all others,
the minority,
those who do not live,
but rather,
exist

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A wise man once told me:

The only way to learn not to know anger and sorrow,
is to forget joy and happiness,
to forget love without picking up hate,
to feel indifference and know no bonds.

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(my personal fave)

Is it I that is blind, and not you?
You smile and say that it'll be okay,

Can you hear more than I?
For you hum with the tunes of the "Sidewalk" blues,

Am I so apathetic, so unfeeling, so cold?
That I cannot share in the bliss of children

Or is it you?
You smile at meager pleasures,
ignoring the suffering of so many.

Or is it you?
Do you not hear his pain,
His torture,
lamenting

Is your apathy not worse than mine?
I see the smiles of children,
ignorantly being shoved into a world,
of death, famine, genocide,
You!

It is I.

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My father never taught me to shuck and jive
the only thing a young negro needs to know to stay alive
He told me I descended from kings and queens
but all I see around me is drug dealers and fiends
I close my eyes, open my heart,and strengthen my mind,
but it seems even a blind man can see the color line
Some might say, "if only my color was different,"
its foolish to pray, "if only skin color didn't make a difference"
it would seem racism is now a part of our collective soul
a diamond is perfected when poetically connected to coal,

My Father never taught me to open my hand,
closed fist,
stiff wrist,
on my soapbox, I stand
To be closer to heaven?
to be further from man?

I'm not sure if I'm done yet b'cus, I've had major writer's block for at least a month and this just doesn't seem done

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though i closed my eyes
though the clouds darkened the skies
i knew, the sun shined

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the cooling calm breeze
rattles the reeds and the brush
spreading seeds of lust

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the fire burns harsh
raging within the machine
i, alone fight it

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His song was without tone
as he sang to that raging metronome
I did not know the man or of which he spoke
corn and rain, banks and smoke
a farmer who sung a song so sweet
as I heard and stared while tapping my feet
I stood to rise
I met his eyes
A fire dancing from the words he muttered
I fell to my place as the train had stuttered
His song was plain I thought it mere speech
But I listened on for no song is unsweet

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