There are many forms
Of education/s
Lying aching on a lumpy couch
After clearing tables and washing dishes
For strangers’ celebrations
Wanting to thrust a juvenile twitching brain
Into the consuming oblivion of excess libations
Slowly shedding these snake skins
Of a spoiled, debaucherous adolescence and petty adulations
Sticky film of sweat, berating voices, lacerating films
Of the past and a banal existence mixing with jackhammer
Invasions and pulsing temptations pernicious persuasions
Go jack off and eat dollar pizza you privileged red-headed caucasian
Succumb to the easy evasions oh you think you’re patient?
An undiagnosed patient? You think anyone cares you’re alone here in fear
Craving and raging? Or about your ruminations and frustrations and
Fulminations? The doubts and dead ends of your scribbling and wandering
Vocation? This couch is a lazy contracting contagion and spiritual stagnation
Get up you withering, bitter bastard before you
Now I’m lying in an empty park at midnight before a graduation
And the grass is cool, breeze from the river refreshing, and I’m weeping and I
Tell myself to try and let myself enjoy this brief sensation
This small step forward, a steady gradation, towards a vision of creation
Years and frontiers to go but breathe in this rising elation
Before I get up and go home and tomorrow morning
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