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    Monsters Under Your Head
    Monsters Under Your Head
    Monsters Under Your Head
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    Monsters Under Your Head

    By Chad Sugg

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    Monsters Under Your Head is a poetry book about life in the words of someone who's just as lost in it as you.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateMar 25, 2011
    ISBN9781257152445
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      Monsters Under Your Head - Chad Sugg

      Monsters Under Your Head

      Monsters Under Your Head

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      Written by Chad Sugg

      MONSTERS UNDER YOUR HEAD

      Copyright © 2008 by Chad Sugg

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      For information address Chad Sugg, P.O. Box 3212

      Clarksville, TN 37043.

      Cover design and layout by Chad Sugg

      Author Biography photo by Jenna Winstead

      Back Cover photo by David Aday

      Printed in the U.S.A.

      Second Edition 2015.

      /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

      ISBN: 978-1-257-15244-5

      For you

      Foreword

      When I mention to someone, whether it be a friend, stranger, family member, whomever, that I’ve written a book they always say the same thing, Really? What’s it about?

      My response is simply, It’s a poetry book… about everything.

      And when I say that, I’m always a bit embarrassed, if only for the fact that the word poetry seems to be one people see as something ‘only stuck-up, artsy folk write’ or something ‘only sad introverts write to avoid real life’. Up to this point in my life I’m quite sure I don’t quite fit into either of those suits.

      The following pages are nothing more than words I’ve put beside each other in an attempt to describe my ambitions, losses, hopes, faults, lies, loves, adventures and shortcomings, good days and bad, old friends, new fears, past, present, and what’s to come.

      I can assure you, I don’t have the answers to anything in life… I only have my ideas. I can also assure you that answers aren’t all there is to life. Too many people spend their life looking for them, when instead of asking themselves questions they should be asking their friends to come over.

      The poems in this book are all as I originally wrote or typed them. The only revisions made were for spelling errors. I wanted this to be completely untouched by the hands and eyes of others to make sure it was in its original form. I didn’t write these poems to be critiqued or judged on English, I wrote them to be read. I wrote them to be enjoyed and discussed with friends. I wrote them for my own enjoyment and release. I wrote them to give hope to that skinny kid from the shitty little town in that one state where no one visits. I wrote them to give a voice to the things people think but are too afraid to write.

      I wrote these poems in the span of the last few years. Some are from scribbles in my notebooks, some from late nights in California when I missed the view of stars amongst streetlights in the Tennessee twilight, some from days in states I never thought I would see, some from drunken stupors on the keys of my computer, and some from times when I wished I had never learned the word ‘why’.

      When I started writing this Foreword I wanted it to have an insightful ending that brought the whole idea of this book together in nothing more than a paragraph. I wanted it to give the person reading it the same feeling I got when I walked out of the theater with a sudden burst of energy for life after seeing The Pursuit Of Happyness. I wanted it to give them the feeling of hope I got when I would sing Jimmy Eat World’s The Middle in my head walking the hallways freshman year of high school when I was too depressed to admit I was actually depressed. But this is my first attempt at writing a poetry book and I can only hope that my attempt

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