Thursday, March 22, 2018

ad omnia finem


walking around in a world of sound

lingering in the lost and found

downtown the ground’s covered in rain

i slip and fall without the pain

 

tasting tacos from a truck

no line from rain, i was in luck

soaked to the skin, not going in

i’m filled with beer, whiskey and gin

 

rain gutter rust crusted with lust

ashes to ashes, dust to dust

from street decay i will not sway

you are not lost if there’s no way

 

tonight i rhyme within this clime

your physics lie when marking time

physics too is a perception

dancing death of dull deception

 

and neuroscience doesn’t know

that contrast will not make it glow

gotta know how the game is played

rules are tools of malleable clay

 

survivor’s instinct doesn’t think

done time before in this precinct

it’s more effective when you bounce

their blows are glancing when they pounce

 

the right or wrong can dance with song

just hide until hurt moves along

only abused are not confused

we run away from a lit fuse

 

and every movement that we make

substantiates that all is fake

the lion roars, the eagle soars

and we become part of décor

 

to keep your target off our back

no matter what the cul-de-sac

we camouflage with an assuage

surviving as your entourage

 

so all this talk of good and goals

are meaningless and minuscule

we’re purpose driven to survive

and when you’re gone we have arrived

 

so back to all this late night walking

far from all the endless talking

no progression or direction

or illusions of protection

 

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