Tuesday, June 30, 2015

all that remains


“and when an addict runs out of brain cells he is in a terrible fucking position.”

-william s. burroughs

 

high

high, high, high

don’t even try

to understand why

 

i’m just high

 

i jog each morning

crunch and do pushups

caffeinate

hold down a job

 

high all the while

no intended guile

 

people have so much to say

unaware of my book

the dark streets of decay

questions no longer remain

but social decorum

requires me to nod and grunt

 

just pretend i’m listening to you

while you talk to me

i’ll stick with my science magazines

science wasn’t designed to be a philosophy

but i perceive me in a field

hundreds of millions of light years long

i’m an infertile seed on un-fallow ground

 

your words are sounds made with vocal chords

nothing more

 

besides i’m fading in a forest of forgotten frames

no pictures contained

memories unclaimed are all that remain

 

prescription pill pretension

high without extension

 

adrift at sea

undefined

i’d draw a line

but i can’t remember where i put the chalk

and when i come across it

i realize that i really just don’t care

i close the junk drawer and stare

trying to remember why i came downstairs

and opened the junk drawer in the first place

 

my broken starship is drifting in space

i’m getting lean on cans of beans

no longer haunted by un-materialized dreams

cause i can’t construct a cohesive thought

but truthfully everything i was ever taught

is best forgotten anyway

 

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