It is fun to find an old poem that you don't remember writing. I don't have any idea when I wrote it. So here is the first one I've posted in a while!
Oblivion
Maybe I could drink myself into
oblivion
And then they could put me back on Lithium
And then
And then
We could be Friends.
So I pulled down my BVDs
That lead me to propose on my knees
And fall stricken with the suburban disease
Of making sure my grass is really green.
I gonna escape this job that’s killing me
I gonna stop faking a life full
of ease
So my severance package suits the new me
As I run away from things chasing me
I’ll pay for everything I
thought was free
Maybe even take some responsibility
For this world moving toward catastrophe
Place faith in the mystery--that
all is not insanity.
I have to reprogram all that was
taught to me
All fairy tales and films with happy endings
The general goodness I saw in humanity
And agree to reject anything that smells of rationality.
Maybe I could drink myself into
oblivion
And then they could put me back on Lithium
And then
And then
.....We could be Friends.