Monday, July 7, 2014

Cirque du Satire

 I'd always been told
I'd understand when I was older,
but now I am old
and I still don't understand this shit at all.

Marionettes dancing in time,
marching staccato, autopiloted lives.
Suffer the grime
to make it only as far as the sprawl.

All anyone wants is to be needed,
need to feel a fire, burn to be defeated.
Find words to be heeded.
 Obedience mollifies their discontent.

Tell me what it's fucking for.
Promise me no one should want something more
Dare us all to ignore
what this country is supposed to represent.

So, sadly, here's my last pretension:
still fucking the system and screaming dissention.
It's not flouting convention
 to make damn sure my life is always my own.

It's just, these days I'm fucking tired
of bigots and cheaters and assholes and liars
telling me what to desire.
I've sinned and binged. I've transgressed and I've atoned.

Just take me home.

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