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This is one of my favorite poems of Bradley Hathaways...

Mainly because it's the first one i had ever heard, and then because it's halariously beautiful, if that makes any sense to you...

Here's the link to the video: http://www.relevantbooks.com/splashes/bradley/commercial.htm

And here are the words... no need for me to analyze it for you, it's pretty self explainatory.

Manly Man

I don't wany my long hair
Pretty green eyes with
NO I DO NOT HAVE ON MASCARA
Eyelashes
Skinny Figure
Undersized t-shirt

Hips shake too much when I walk
Confuse anybody

I AM A MANLY MAN!

Within this sissy frame
Obvioudly rib laden chest
Lies a heart
That BEATS

to the drum of a
Native American ritual dancing
WILDNESS

It PUMPS an evercascarding supply of untamedness
that a heard of wild mustangs have yet to grasp.

If DANGER lurks about I will seek it out.
If adventure abounds there I will be found.
If a damsel be in distress

I will show her who is best.

I AM A MANLY MAN!

because I DON'T FLUSH
and I leave the lid up.

I drive a nineteen
eighty eight
Ford PICK-UP truck.

GIRLS DON'T BREAK UP WITH ME
I break up with THEM!
except the last time...

I DON'T SHAVE THE HAIR ON MY FACE
(because I still can't grow facial hair yet..
but when I CAN I won't.)

I
FART
BURP
SPIT
WHEN I WANT

Not caring who is nearby

DISRESPECT my MOMMA
and I will punch you in the eye!

I AM A MANLY MAN!

OR AM I?

I TELL MY guy friends I love them.
Sometimes I even hug them.
Not because I'm gay

BUT because I LOVE THEM.

When I watched "Bambi"
I cried
WHEN MY MEMA GETS MAD
I still run and hide.

LIKE DAVID I WANT TO BE A MAN AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART
I'm not there yet but past the start.

And when people talk
I try to listen
A SPIRIT OF COMPASSION
that's my vision.
Surely I am a Manly man
I WANT TO BE LOVED
and have love
AND GIVE LOVE
(not ust that romantic kind either)

ALTHOUGH I AM LOOKING FOR THAT BEAUTY
NOT HELPLESS
But wants to be rescued.
The damsle in distress
MAN
WOMAN
MYTH
TRUE.

I WILL FIGHT FOR HER.
CLIMB THE HIGHEST TOWER FOR HER.

LOVER HER.

SHARE with her.

DELIGHT IN HER.

Be her WARRIOR

HER PROTECTOR

SHE WILL BE MY CROWN
and I will be hers.

MY MASCULINITY WILL BE PASSED DOWN
AND AFFIRMED TO MY SONS.

Each of my daughters will know they are LOVED
and deserving of authentic romance.

SOCIETY TELLS ME
ALL DAY LONG

THAT I HAVE DEFINED MANHOOD
COMPLETELY WRONG

BUT YOU ASK and honest man and he will agree
YOU ASK any honest woman and she too will see

THAT I AM A MANLY MAN!