Men who don't fit in

[Donald R. Cossitt]

I just read a poem by Robert Service "The Men That Don't Fit In" that reminds me of someone I know all too well. :roll:

There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.
If they just went straight they might go far;
They are strong and brave and true;
But they're always tired of the things that are,
And they want the strange and new.
They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
What a deep mark I would make!"
So they chop and change, and each fresh move
Is only a fresh mistake.
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady quiet, plodding ones
Who win the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.
He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;
He has just done things by half.
Life's been a jolly good joke on him,
And now is the time to laugh,
Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;
He was never meant to win;
He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone;
He's a man who won't fit in.
(from Collected Poems of Robert Service)

Does anyone else know this person - especially after the nth nitpick?

[Rufus BugleWeed]

Sure that's George Walker Bush.

[Michael Ernest]

Milton Friedman?

[Anonymous]

Western civilization as a whole...

[John Summers]

does anyone else have a filthy mind and found the title of this thread amusing?
john

[Anonymous]

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[Timothy Chen Allen]

Here's another verse:
We're the guts of men who don't fit in
Who waddle where they crawl
Whose belts won't hold their bellies in
Their pants four sizes small.
We poke out through the gaps in shirts
E'en though they be discrete
The sadness of these bloated men
Who never see their feet.

[John Summers]

that's a funny verse!
to be honest, in the north east of england, i see more beer bellies on women than men.
j

[Timothy Chen Allen]

Originally posted by John Summers:
that's a funny verse!
to be honest, in the north east of england, i see more beer bellies on women than men.
j

Thanks John. If you liked that one, I've posted another one at
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[John Summers]

gross!!

[Anonymous]

I like women with beer bellies!