Saturday, June 7, 2014

the only skeptic in the room


an old friend showed up

dragged me to his daughter’s

high school graduation

god was i out of my element

 

positive, positive, positive

dreams, dreams, dreams

future, future, future

meaning, meaning, meaning

 

i hope none of those kids

ever end up like me

 

i am the worst thing you can be

i am a nihilist

 

i don’t care how much will transpire

before it all expires

it is the fate of an expiration date

that causes me to conjugate

 

yes when water evaporates

it still exists

just in a different form

molecules reborn in another storm

 

but that’s just it

we don’t somehow defy

the laws of physics

and mysteriously exist

apart from the molecules

that forms our frame

 

my carcass will decay

my molecules drift away

and some day far away

unexcited photons

will be the only thing

in existence

 

so all this pretense

about existence

existing beyond the elements

 

oh fuck it

let them believe

and hope in a day

when the settlement includes

all the back pay

they have ever been due

 

i will walk cold and alone

like the future of photons

floating in a forever

that is completely severed

from any material means

by which we use to mark

the passing of time

 

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