The Three Stooges

THE THREE STOOGES

With their lunatic style of slapstick
These old favourites made their mark
Bangs on head, eye pokes and arse kicks
Were transformed to works of art

But it's not of this trio I speak
Three more egregious, my aim
On these your attention I seek
They're REGRET, SHAME and BLAME

Undesirables of the emotions
With pretence that your life they will serve
If for living this life you've devotion
Treat them with the mistrust they deserve

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SHAME - the one least deserving disdain
The one who gets head bashed and eyes poked
Only loons never feel guilty pain
Without wishing their sins be revoked

With no shame at our dastardly deed
We would surely be heartless and brazen
Not to feel some repentance, fault concede
But don't drown in self immolation

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REGRET is a stooge insidious
A crime with no victim but self
Curbing soul in a manner perfidious 
Life on a hold, and you on the shelf

Have a few, perhaps 'too few to mention'
You mis-spoke? Well by all means retract words
But avoid a total suspension
And don't spend your life looking backwards

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Then BLAME, there's the killer, life dumbing
Though it may give relief and brief feel-good
To beat up some rat who had it coming
But move on! Don't descend into victimhood

The problem with indulging in blame
It makes another the cause and you the effected
Paint yourself in a victim's frame
Can you then be the source for life corrected?

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