Thursday, August 10, 2017

you’re conditioning is to be unable to send or receive without labels


i love los angeles

but my love is unrequited

tired of things having a hold on me

that i let go of long ago

 

do you know

how quickly i get bored

with your art:

your song, your poem, your movie, your novel

especially if it is about los angeles

 

two pages, two words, two minutes

and i’ve moved on

especially if it was a hit

something that the majority relates to

 

as don mclean mocked,

“what makes good money

makes good art”

 

the point being – i’m bored

the second you soliloquy

 

so i’ll just write and walk

on these seedy sidewalks

of l.a.

another volume of

the dark streets of decay

 

and i will try

to act like i care

when you share

the vacancy sign

of your mind

 

because you think:

because you think

therefore you are

 

under the influence

of erroneous thinkers

who scar the flesh

with fabric fashioned

by the designer who created

the emperor’s new clothes   

 

i sleep with a clear conscience

because i know

your standards do not exist

deleted from my playlist

which has very few songs

 

so construe, misconstrue

 

there is nothing we are due

 

i cannot avoid

only anesthetize

numb the pain

of your vanity

that can’t just sit with me

and enjoy

the emptiness of existence

 

because all these fillers

and by products

are just your need

ingrained in the

ignorance of insistence

 

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