Friday, September 23, 2016

and this is why i drink


slept all day

having spent all night with dance

no romance

just me walking home

in the early morning cold

clothes wet with sweat

had one last cigarette

before turning in

 

here i go again

late night walking

beer

passed on whiskey

it gets to me

takes control

till i just want to be consoled

 

admittedly i feel lonely

in the surround sound

of this indifferent town

 

for someone

who has it all figured out

i don’t know anything

and don’t think i’ll hold out long

against the whiskey

 

half a pint?

what can it hurt

 

besides

even the dark side of the moon

is a lie

 

skeletons found in a pyramid

are still just dead man’s bones

 

do you envy my alone

my freedom

no obligation

no need for money

without a woman’s honey

 

i’d trade the future days

the cigarettes haven’t

already taken

for just one night

of not feeling

so forsaken

 

i remember i went to my senior prom

with someone else’s girlfriend

he was serving overseas

he trusted me

we didn’t even do

the dances that were slow

i drove her home

he was waiting on the phone

when i walked her to her door

 

so much for trust

men always think women

are a possession

 

but in this late night confession

i don’t think anything

will ever make me happy

that’s why i’m only asking

for one night

 

and when day deals its death blow

to the remnants of twilight

i’ll honor the terms of the agreement

and close my eyes for that eternal sleep

which reminds us all

we are just guest

within the walls

of the house of life

 

till then

i’ll extinguish another cigarette

think about whiskey and

barbeque potato chips

 

walk

 

drink the cans of beer

i stuffed into every pocket

of my cargo pants and coat

 

quote

the lines i’m writing right now

 

“stars above and turtle doves

we make you more than what you are

in high school we learn of the love

to get a girl you need a car

 

to keep her be instilled with worth

for one day when she’s given birth

you need to provide the suicide

of value in how she abides”

 

god

no wonder i drink

and walk these streets night after night

 

no lot will i cast

until she falls in love with me

by reading my poetry

 

yes i know expectation

is excrement

so i lower my standards

and bought those barbeque chips

and let this beer buzz

be my one true love

 

l.a. is an easy place

to avoid human interaction

i prefer subtraction

when people try to make connection

i think if they really knew me

they would disdain

 

nothing can be healed

when all you treat is the disease

and not the patient

if you can’t love me on

the dark streets of decay

of my creation

the rest is masturbation

and i can do that all by myself

 

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