The V-Files: The Truth Is in Here

By Nelson Onit Vazqueztell

In becoming a poet, Ive noticed that I now pay strict attention to every detail around me. I used to take my surroundings for granted, and I didnt always pay close attention to everything there was to notice. Welcome! Welcome once again to another book of poetry and to my wild, creative and imaginative mind. In this second poetry book I hope you find the stories much more interesting, the comedy much more refreshing and that the romance takes you to a few nostalgic moments of your own.

You may notice that this second collection of my work is a little different to my first, TRUTH, COMEDY & POETRY for ALL, in that there are not as many love poems. This time around, I wanted to express a little more of my other sides instead of just the romance. So I decided, sure, there is still going to be plenty of heart felt tales in here, but there will be more emphasis on the serious and comic aspects this time around. I also made most of the poems much, much shorter. I wanted to make sure there wouldnt be constant thoughts of, "Gee, this poem is a little too long and therefore I am uncontrollably daydreaming due to the length of this study-hall of a poem." Then again, according to my test group, it seems that the long stories here are pretty good. But you can be the judge of that.

The reason I wrote my first book was to get others into reading poetry and writing some of their own. However, the reason I wanted to write this second book was because I wanted to know that if I were to die tomorrow, I would leave something behind that could still make people smile or think. I wanted to create something that would last and be appreciated for generations to come. I wanted to leave behind a mark of my existence. And so here is my book.

If you havent read my first book, well, I want to start over with a "Hello." I am a fairly new poet and writer who will either make you think, laugh or say, "My God this romantic material is going to come in handy for the next time I meet someone I like." Whatever the scenario, I just want to remind everyone that we all have three sides to us. We may not show all of them every day, but within all of us exists a serious side, a humorous side and a romantic side. In both of my poetry books I show my different characters, and then some. Especially, in THE V-FILES.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 21, 2002
• ISBN: 9781403303967

Nelson Onit Vazqueztell

Believe it or not, the author of this hilarious book started his writing career over a romantic mistake, in a time of sadness and confusion.  And both his writing career and his romantic mistake both happened in the college that he graduated from, Berkeley College.  Because of his ‘tragic times and romantic situations’ Nelson Vazqueztell became fascinated with analyzing how our thinking changes and ‘evolves’ over time by learning from our past mistakes in relationships and our lives.  And so, he has captivated readers with his analytical thinking, his gritty points of view and his tales which range from the autobiographical to the impossible.   However, being the class clown he’s always been, it seemed as if this book had been years upon years in the making.  Sure, everyone may know him as a poet, author, and all around storyteller, but anyone that truly knows him will realize that his humor is one-of-a-kind.  Nelson has written comic poems before in his first two books (TRUTH, COMEDY & POETRY for ALL and THE V-FILES: The Truth Is In Here).  And though his books have, until now, been divided into chapters of serious, romantic and comic work, this is the first time that he goes into full-fledged comedy.  Nelson wanted all of his readers to get a pure ‘shot’ of laughter… which he will always call “the best medicine.”  Anyone who knows the author personally can tell you, his sense of humor is most definitely part of his personality.  Without “funny”, there is no Nelson.   Who would have thought that a guy born and raised in tough old Brooklyn would have ended up a published poet?  Not to mention, who would have thought that a name that complicated would have made it onto yet another cover of a book?  Well at the age of 26, he has and there are many more books on the way.  Vigorously working on several manuscripts at a time is what keeps him and his loving wife, his primary editor, busy.    His next projects consist of a story-end-choosing erotica tales compilation (DARC: Love, Lust & Fantasy), another poetry book (BACK TO THE POETRY) and a trilogy of thriller vampire / werewolf legend novels (CODENAMES: VAMP & WOLF).   You Can Contact Nelson directly at the following e-mail: [e-mail]

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© 2001, 2002 by Nelson Onit Vazqueztell. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,

or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,

recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author.

ISBN: 1-4033-0396-7 (Electronic)

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ISBN: 1-4033-0397-5 (Softcover)

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Contents

Introduction by the Author & Records Keeper of ‘THE V-FILES’

CHAPTER 1HONEST & SERIOUS

THE SCARE AFTER AN ULTIMATE PLEASURE

16-YEAR-OLDS

MY HEART SHATTERED AGAIN

WHAT’S HE THINKING?

THE RIGHT SITUATION

MAN VERSUS MACHINE

SPENDING TIME WISELY

POINT OF VIEW

TO THE THIEF OF WORDS

THE HEART BREAKER’S DEMISE

STORM OF VENGEANGE

VANITY

TEST OF FAITH OR TEST OF SURVIVAL?

MAN VERSUS NATURE

IN THEIR FINAL YEARS

PSYCHIC WORRIES

SECOND CHANCE

INTERROGATION OF MS. SHEPIS

ONLY TO THE TRUEST OF FRIENDS

THE BEST IN ALL MY YEARS

SEPARATED

MEMORIES IN A FLASH

INDEPENDENT

PARENTHOOD

I HAD THE WRONG FATHER FIGURE

WHY IS IT…?

MY RULES TO LIFE

TO ALL THOSE THAT NEVER WERE

A FOLLOWING DEMON

MUSIC’S DEFINITION AND POWER

LIFE

ENVY AND GREED

SMILEY

SLOTH AND GLUTTONY

DIVINE INTERVENTIONS

VAZQUEZTELL

ONIT

CHURCH OF HOLY NOTHINGNESS

TWISTED WORLD

LUST AND WRATH

SEPARATED ONCE AGAIN

FINAL MOMENTS

SOMETIMES, YOU JUST HAVE TO LET IT BE

HER BIGGEST SECRET

145 PAGES LOST!

A PICTURE

WHY DID HE?

TIRED OF BEING THE HERO

BEYOND THE TEMPTRESS

MY BIRTHDAY

INSECURE DUMB FUCK

DR. WOLF

DEAR MR. TRAVIS

IF PARC WERE EVIL

MY ARCH NEMESIS

WHAT GOES AROUND…

MOTHER 4

332 REAP STREET

ON A DARK NIGHT LIKE THIS 2

IN A BLINK

UNDOING AN UNFORGETTABLE MISTAKE

AIN’T THAT A KICK TO THE HEAD?

THE OLD, WISE AND CREATIVE ONE (THAT’S WHO I AM)

CHAPTER 2 COMEDY & PARODY

COPIES ARE DONE! (Bad To The Bone SPOOF)

SHIT!

CHICKEN OR THE EGG?

AND THROUGH IT ALL, I STILL GO ON

BITTER MEMORIES

THE NUDIE BAR EXPERIENCE

MY LITTLE PIN-UP

(MY LITTLE CENTERFOLD 2)

BROWN MARSUPIAL MOUSE

WHAT IS ADVICE?

HORNESTLY

NINETY-NINE CENT CONSPIRACY

DAMN… MY PANTS GOT ALL WET

TRINKETS AND MEMORIES

CUPID… GO SUCK IT!

WHAT SEPARATES THE MACHO FROM THE DESPERATE

JUSTIFYING POTTY MOUTH SITUATIONS

A MOMENT’S GUILT

I’M SORRY

THE OLD MAN’S STORIES

COMPARISONS OF WISDOM

CATCHING UP TO THE CHANGES

CODENAMES: VAMP AND WOLF

BURGER JOINT (Kokomo SPOOF)

STENCHY PITS (Tainted Love SPOOF)

SPORTS TURF

PENNY TRATION

FUHGEDDABOUDER!

SPORTS TURF CHRONICLES

SPORTS TURF CHRONICLES II

JOE AND JOANNE (Jack and Diane SPOOF)

THE DATE FROM HELL!

WICKED INTENTIONS

A SPERM CLINIC TALE

THE V-FILES (FIGHT FOR THE PRESENT)(Definitely a SPOOF)\

FLAKE

WRITER’S BLOCK

WICKED INTENTIONS 2

DARK SPOT

MEAT BEATER ROGUE (Vogue SPOOF)

YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK?

DEAD WITH THE SMELL OF LAVENDER VIOLETS

WICKED INTENTIONS 3

FALLEN STARDOM

BLADE OF BORICUA

WWW.CRCVISUAL.COM

THOUGHTS ON MY LATINO POPULATION

A FUCKED UP STORY

DON TORTELLI’S TALE

THE COMIC WITH THE FREE SPIRIT (THAT’S WHO I AM)

CHAPTER 3 LOVES & DESIRES

AFRAID TO GIVE AWAY MY HEART AGAIN(But …)

SO CERTAIN

YOU’RE EVERTHING I’VE EVER NEEDED

LIKE LIGHTNING!

SHATTERED FANTASY

THE VOW I HAVE YET TO GIVE

UNTIL THEN

LO QUE QUIERO

WHAT I WANT(English Version)

THE TRUTH OF WHOM I SEARCH FOR

TOO ACCESIBLE BUT TRUSTWORTHY

SOMETHING NEW

DOUBTS

CAN’T WE ALL A GOOD TIME SHARE?

REDHEADS!

ALTERNATE REALITIES 2

KEEPING BACK

CALL ME…

HER DEVIOUS SMILES

FEELINGS WITHOUT LOVE?

POETIC SERENADE

SETTING THE MOOD

THAT’S WHY I HELD ON SO TIGHT

WANTED: GIRL WITH A HEART

LOVE & SEX

LOVE & SEX 2

LOVE & SEX 3

LOVE & SEX 4

LOVE AND FROST

A PRAYER OF HEART’S GUIDANCE

SCENTS AND MEMORIES

SUDDENLY CAPTIVATED

WHAT DO WE SEE IN EACH OTHER’S EYES?

TO MY VALENTINE

ILLUSIONS DESTROYED BY REALITY (After My Valentines)

WILL SHE RECALL? (The Purge)

TORN ON FRIENDSHIP

THINGS CHANGE

LIKE A GHOST

AND YET STILL…

PROOF

HUMAN DESIRES

RELIVING THE PAST

I COULDN’T FEEL THE RAIN

NO MORE I LOVE YOU’S

EL DOLOR Y EL PLACER MAS GRANDE

THE GREATEST PAIN AND PLEASURE

IN THE LONG RUN

A SECOND FALL

FOREVER MEMORABLE

UMISTAKABLY FOR KEEPS

TRUTHS FOLLOW

SENTIMENT’S EXACTLY

6 MONTHS LATER

AND THEN… SOMETIME LATER

HELPESS ANGEL

SHE TRUSTS BUT CANNOT LOVE

CONDEMNED TO SOLITUDE

A LITTLE ADVICE

EASIER FOR THE GUYS

V2K!

WITHOUT MERCY

UNDERNEATH THE LINES

MY SEARCH

NO DENIAL

NEVER

AT THE CROSSROADS

FOR THE MOMENT

THE ACTOR

AND SO…

ANOTHER ENDING

DOWN TO YOU

FRANCISCO’S RETURN

FIRST KISS

PIVOTAL MOMENT

PIVOTAL MOMENT 2: JEALOUSY FLASHBACK

THE LITTLE ISLAND

THE BREAKTHROUGH

THE DAY YOU BREAK YOUR SILENCE

WITHIN HER LIES MY FAITH

WHO HAS THE CONTROL?

THAT’S WHEN YOU KNOW YOU LOVE HER

LITTLE BY LITTLE

SO CERTAIN(This time for real)

SYLVIA

TAKING THE LEAP

3 WONDERFUL MONTHS

3 MARAVILLOSOS MESES)

WILL YOU…?

WELL WORTH THE EFFORT

WHY RUSH INTO THINGS?\

PIVOTAL MOMENT 3: JEALOUSY FLASHBACK

LITTLE BY LITTLE 2

CUDDLY

OUR VOWS

HOW TO WIN A POET’S HEART

SWEET HONEYMOON

ONE DAY

ONE FINAL PROMISE

HOPE

THE HOPELESS ROMANTIC (THAT’S WHO I AM)

CHAPTER 4 A Few Newcomers & The Morals

UNCONDITIONAL

FAREWELL PRINCESS

AMOR Y ABRAZOS

LOVE AND HUGS

WITHOUT MERCY 2

THE YOUTH NOWADAYS

DRIVES ME CRAZY

FINAL BREATH

MISSING YOU

LADY OF DREAMS

TRUE LOVE

NO MATTER WHAT

ANGER

HEARTBREAK

FROM 6 E-MAILS

CRUSH

UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE

TO THE PAST

DADDY’S LITTLE GIRL

GIVE AND TAKE

WAR

I’LL MISS YOU

I’LL NEVER LEAVE YOU

A SPECIAL VISITOR

THE ONE WHO CHASED MY SHIVERS

WHY DIDN’T I MEET YOU BEFORE?

A MOMENT IN TIME

THE SAD LOVE SONG

EULOGY FOR A POET (THIS IS WHO HE WAS)

THE MORAL OF THE STORY IN VERSE 2

THE MORAL OF THE STORY IN VERSE 3

DARC-TIONARY

*Dedicatied to my Honey, Sylvia (My love, my life, my wife)

Dedicated to the most unbelievable and

incredible friends that I could ever have,

Jacqueline, Eugene, Angel V.,

Halis, Thomas, Dillon, Jermaine,

Margaret, Diana, Sandra,

Nataly,

& definitely my loving wife,

Sylvia Lorena Vazqueztell

Guys, thank you for being my very best friends!

I owe a lot of good times to you all!

Syl, thank you Honey for all the inspirations that led me

to completing my second book and beginning my third!

"You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die or when. You

can only decide how you are going to live. Now."

-Joan Baez

"The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to

make sense, and life doesn’t."

-Joseph L. Mankiewicz

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in

looking together in the same direction."

-Antione De Saint-Exupery

"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without

leaving some mark on it forever."

-Francois Mauriac

"Life is a series of tests to see if each mortal can lead a good life in

a world full of evils. Friendship, love, intelligence, good judgment

and humor are your only keys to prevail."

-Nelson Onit Vazqueztell

Introduction by the Author & Records Keeper of

‘THE V-FILES’

In becoming a poet, I’ve noticed that I now pay strict attention to every detail around me. I used to take my surroundings for granted, and I didn’t always pay close attention to everything there was to notice. Welcome! Welcome once again to another book of poetry and to my wild, creative and imaginative mind. In this second poetry book I hope you find the stories much more interesting, the comedy much more refreshing and that the romance takes you to a few nostalgic moments of your own.

You may notice that this second collection of my work is a little different to my first (TRUTH, COMEDY & POETRY for ALL) in that there are not as many love poems. This time around, I wanted to express a little more of my other sides instead of just the romance. So I decided, sure, there is still going to be plenty of ‘heart felt tales’ in here, but there will be more emphasis on the serious and comic aspects this time around. I also made most of the poems much, much shorter. I wanted to make sure there wouldn’t be constant thoughts of, Gee, this poem is a little too long and therefore I am uncontrollably daydreaming due to the length of this ‘study-hall’ of a poem. Then again, according to my test group, it seems that the long stories here are pretty good. But you can be the judge of that.

The reason I wrote my first book was to get others into reading poetry and writing some of their own. However, the reason I wanted to write this second book was because I wanted to know that if I were to die tomorrow, I would leave something behind that could still make people smile or think. I wanted to create something that would last and be appreciated for generations to come. I wanted to leave behind a mark of my existence. And so here is my book.

If you haven’t read my first book, well, I want to start over with a Hello. I am a fairly new poet and writer who will either make you think, laugh or say, My God this romantic material is going to come in handy for the next time I meet someone I like. Whatever the scenario, I just want to remind everyone that we all have three sides to us. We may not show all of them every day, but within all of us exists a serious side, a humorous side and a romantic side. In both of my poetry books I show my different characters, and then some. Especially, in THE V- FILES.

Obviously everyone has to be serious in order to survive in this dog-eat-dog business world around us. However, no one can be serious at all times. I mean laughter is the best medicine of all. Ahh, and then there’s romance… many mistake love (the passion between two lovers that keeps you committed to your lover), lust (strictly animal attraction which involves little or no love) and romance (the art of fancying and treating an other’s heart in a consciousness of love) for the same thing. But they are most certainly not as I try to dissect them all within my pages. At the age of 21 (the age that I began my second book), I have to admit that I have seen and felt so much that I could not help but to write so much of it down. And now here, in its book form, my experiences and wild mind come together for the second time to bring you into the strange world that I live in and the ones I create.

My readers always asks me, Where do you come up with so many ideas? And you know what? Until this day, I sometimes surprise myself with the cute or crazy things I come up with. My life is full of romance and craziness… and as you read this book you’ll see exactly what I mean. And as for my creative stories and poems, there are nights that I may be having a dream and I’ll wake up in the middle of the night just to write it down. I have sticky pads everywhere and thoughts running rampant all the time.

Hard to believe that when I chose a High School, I went to a Veterinary Science. And when I went for my Associates in college, I wanted to end up in Retail. I realized by the end of it all that I was flunking in one and hated the other, respectively. Yet, I never took any classes for writing and I ended up falling in love with poetry. I believe that Petrarch (a grand Italian poet at the very beginning of the Renaissance) said it best when he wrote, It is remarkable that I long to write, yet do not know what to write, or to whom, and yet-what an unrelenting pleasure!- paper, pen, ink and sleepless nights give more satisfaction than sleep and repose. Well, to tell you the absolute truth, that’s what I love about writing. It’s that feeling of wanting to continue to fill a page with ideas until your mind is clean. That makes writing interesting and fun.

The problem though, after getting all these great ideas, is getting published. It’s hard to even think about sending your manuscript to twenty publishers and knowing that everyone of those companies will simply stack your manuscript into the stacks of manuscripts and they may not get to it for months. Hell, that’s if you’re lucky… it could be years. So, I decided to self publish. I mean, according to Vantage Press and Watermark Press, (which are both just chock full of great information) Nathaniel Hawthorne (for Fanshawe, known better for The Scarlet Letter), Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace), Edgar Allan Poe (Tamerlane and Other Poems), Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Rudyard Kipling and even Mark Twain, have all paid to have their work published! So you know what? Do the homework, find a company that works for you and goes along with all your instructions, and get books out there too. Get some benchmarks out there or your own. Let others see how you see the world. You never know who or what you can change out there. I mean after all, you can’t live forever… but your book could.

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PS: Let’s hear it for Alaska… they’re actually putting poetry on their beer bottles to spur interest in poetry. (Time, News Quiz, April 30, 2001)

CHAPTER 1

HONEST & SERIOUS

I found the sweetest nostalgia filling me when I returned to Coney Island, after 13 years, and I squeezed in with my mom into that ‘Happy Worm’ roller coaster and relived my happy childhood moments of being with her when I was just 11 years old. I barely fit now with mom… but it was wonderful to share a moment like that with her again.

Nelson Vazqueztell

THE SCARE AFTER AN ULTIMATE PLEASURE

by Nelson Vazqueztell

dedicated to those caught up in an uncontrollable moment (5/14/98)

What were we thinking?

How could we be so wrong?

Now we wait for our fate

but the wait feels so long

That day was like a fantasy

so real, we both lost control

It’s incredible to think however

that we might have created a soul

I love you at any cost, my love

No matter what problems our fate will reveal

Though truthfully I don’t know

how with this possibility to deal

A human life should not be taken…

not after it’s been made

You never know what may be taken…

what future could’ve been in play

Until our moment of truth, my dear

worries run so deep

Now we both think about our actions

because worries don’t let us sleep

No matter what, my love

I truly don’t plan on losing you

If positive… then we’ll become three

If negative… we’ll remain two

16-YEAR-OLDS

by Nelson Vazqueztell (1/23/00)

Guys… sure they look good… hell, most are just ready, willing and able

However, before you jump the gun… think about it…

Sure at sixteen they have no inhibitions and express the greatest of feelings…

but they’re also too young… in other words, immature

Sure at this age they have all the time in the world for you…

but what can you possibly talk about with someone who has had no experiences

And sure, you may be thinking that talking is overrated… and that you’re only

interested in getting a little action… hell, youth and stamina go hand in hand, right?

Well guess again hotshot… they’re illegal from the day you turned 18

Let them be… let those of their age range have them

MY HEART SHATTERED AGAIN

by Nelson Vazqueztell

dedicated to a slayer and betrayer, AMS (7/3/98)

It seems like I’ve once again had my heart broken

God, how is it we can never get used to that pain?

And so this newfound love has also crumbled

Once again I have been left alone to wander in the rain

To think I actually wanted to make you my bride

Now it seems like the only bride will be your intervening mother

She has to be engaged to Lucifer, she’s Satan’s bride

Now I’m left alone once again to begin my search for another

Everything would have worked if that demon didn’t exist

But she lives and she killed what we had, it’s all lost

Baby, I would have waited years to be with you again

But what truly destroyed my heart is that I was also double-crossed

You turned to her side and told her everything I’d ever told you

I feel so betrayed… you broke my trust

Honey, I thought we’d last forever in our fantasy world

Yet is was, Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust

Ever notice how when you’re alone everyone has someone?

However, now is a time when alone I want to and must be

I truly let go of all our love and emotion for you my dear

When you, to save your hide, went against my family

I stand by in wonder as my life continues

Will my heart ever stop shattering and breaking?

Is love really worth the pain and the blues?

Well it is, but not when a back-stabber causes the aching!

We had our memories and our moments, oh yes

But now I wonder if the smiles were just an evil trick of some sort

To blind me so that you could get what you wanted

Now our whole romantic past, of truth, falls so short

You violated my trust, ‘kiddo’

You also aimed and acted against people that to me are close

I would have waited for you until forever

But when you stabbed me in the back, to end all hope you chose

WHAT’S HE THINKING?

by Nelson Vazqueztell (7/31/98)

When an innocent person who means no one harm

gets pulled aside so that he can’t yell for help as he’s getting mugged…

What’s God thinking?

When a young woman who seeks only affection and commitment

gets pulled into a dark alley or stairway to be brutally raped…

What’s God thinking?

When a child is innocently at home, in his room

and a stray bullet rips through a wall to kill him after a 3-day critical condition…

What… could God… possibly be thinking?

THE RIGHT SITUATION

by Nelson Vazqueztell (7/31/98)

Do you think you would ever steal?

Let’s say… you’re poor and you see your child dying of hunger

Starving is he and no one at all will help you

While he cries, you see a nearby fruit-stand open

You have a quick opportunity and no money. What will you do?

In the right situation, you’d steal wouldn’t you?

Do you think you would ever kill?

Suppose… some mugger is threatening your crying mother

The son of a bitch has a knife to her neck

You have a knife as well as a quick hand

There’s a hero’s chance of opportunity. What will you do in sec?

In the right situation, you’d kill wouldn’t you?

Do you think you would…

In the right situation, you would… wouldn’t you?

MAN VERSUS MACHINE

by Nelson Vazqueztell (8/7/98)

‘Machine’ can do just about anything…

better and quicker than Man can complete

But the mystery of emotion and tears…

is to any Machine an impossible feat

Man may not have the power of Machine

And Man may not last as long as Machine

And Man may not produce as much as Machine

However, what’s the use of such power if you cannot dream

Man needs water and food to live

Machine needs oil and electricity to survive

Man can act like Machine and seem robotic

However, never can Machine act human and seem alive

Machine is neither fearful nor affectionate

Neither does Machine have any thoughts of it’s own

Man however must have fears and must love

Man also thinks whether it’s collectively or alone

Let the future battle begin

There will soon be a day where because of Man, Machine will ‘awake’

Man’s intelligence will be it’s downfall or it’s upper hand

However, there’s still chance for Man to erase mistake

SPENDING TIME WISELY

by Nelson Vazqueztell (8/7/98)

One must be careful of how we spend our time

We shouldn’t always think of it as just being mine

For instance, the times spent with parents should not be rare

One must remember that they won’t forever be there

Finding time to be with your love is something that must be done

A sweetheart without time is as useful as a plant without sun

Time helps make relationships and bonds grow stronger

And as many believe, your life has a preset limit that will not get any longer

Appreciate all that is around you

Care for all there is around too

Remember there are no second chances in life… when it has ended

So please, listen well, use your time here wisely and watch how you spend it

POINT OF VIEW

by Nelson Vazqueztell

dedicated to someone very dear, Mervin Otero (8/23/98)

You know that statement about not knowing what it’s like

until you’ve walked a mile in another’s shoes?

Well… it is those of us without an open mind out here that in judging quickly, are

blinded by facts of what is the reality

I speak to you of a man behind bars for murder…

a man serving a fifteen to life sentence…

It all depends… on how you look at him

TO THE THIEF OF WORDS

by Nelson Vazqueztell

dedicated to Zahir and any others who could be using other’s ‘spoken word’ (6/28/99)

Plagiarist… thief… loser… did you call my work your own?

Has your charisma gotten you this far?

How many have you stolen from before?

Where is your conscience when you profit from the unknown?

Are you stupid and desperate that you can’t express your own feelings?

Can anyone trust in the words of a man who has none of his own?

And when you finally do write something of your own, can you be trusted…

I mean what is truly YOUR work?

THE HEART BREAKER’S DEMISE

by Nelson Vazqueztell

dedicated to all those that need a little lesson to be taught, like Shelly (9/8/98)

For years she has been known

only as a seductive player

Anyone who met this woman,

got caught without a prayer

Never once thinking of how a broken heart hurts,

she’d break them left and right

She’d date without any worry or any care

Her only care was where she’d go each night

This player was an expert at seduction

and even more knowledgeable at manipulations

This sexy young woman could charm herself into any heart

and when she’d used them enough, she’d end the relations

She’d use the three little words as a hook

She used her gorgeous body as bait

This professional had all the tricks to a ‘T’

Any man would think of her as ‘great’

With a smile she could get any amount of money

With a kiss she could get any jewel

She would leave them all in debt for the next man

Not once thinking it was all so immoral and cruel

Then finally one day she met someone she thought was ‘Mr. Right,’

However, he was a player who seduced her instead

Since they had met, she’d want to only be with him,

but the same plan was not running through his head

At one point she swore to end her old ways

Now she would be faithful and would cherish

The bombshell even promised to give instead of take

However