fight the wind
you'll never win
but it will **** time
and maybe
you'll have fun
or if nothing else
we can laugh
at your
determination.

Day by day
You waste away
I know why
But I don't know
How to stop it
The professionals give advice
As does everyone else
Yet nothing works
And still you fade
What can I do
What can I say
What will I do
Without you.

If you have enough power
you can make
people do many things
you can make
them weak
them fear
them bend
but you can't make
them love you.

What inspires you
Pop culture
Society
Those swirling ghosts
That haunt your mind
Whatever it is
I hope you don't lose them
It can drive you crazy
when you have no words
Or maybe you should
If your draining out the toxins
Maybe one day
You won't have anything to write
And things will be all right
Maybe
Maybe not.

You spent so
Very much time
Looking for the best
You wore yourself out
And settled for not the worst.

Another year older
Hopefully a little wiser
A little less time
I hope it was spent well
So happy birthday
One more down
Who knows
How many left to go
Have a present.

and if you don't
than I never have to
right?

Hero to Villain how

I borrowed a pin
from a friend
heroic fall

but seriously how
you stood for something

you stand still long enough
you can watch the land change
I changed teams without moving
I guess that was still a choice.

Do as you will
You know
within reason
no that
won't work
hmm well
be free
be happy
or if nothing else
please
be quiet
in your discontent.

Oh bright bits
Way up in your home
You do so much
A guide
A light
A simple pretty sight
It always brings me down
When I hear
That one of your own
Has fallen
The remains
Picked over by we
I suppose that's a reminder
That nothing lasts forever.

It's very close
But no
It isn't it
If I close my eyes
It feels the same
Or so I can pretend.

Can not
What can't be done
By you
By me
By them
Not much
Honest
Most can do
So much more than they think
The real issue is should
The answer
Maybe.

Green rider
ride away
from me and mine
not just disease of the body
god forbid
in you're wake
as your herald
panic
who needs that.

I tried to write a book
it went
poorly
I try to capture wisdom
and wit
with words
but my attempts
fall flat
so
any aspiring authors
want to let me steal your work.

it sounds so futuristic
by now
the world should be chrome
still time still just 21
things can change fast
could wake up tomorrow
having missed the revolution
movies from the 80s what do they know
less than me apparently.

the world is burning
what else is new
oh ****
is this
what Billy Joel meant
cause I don't play with matches
A childish thing
to play
with dangerous things
is it kids these days
I should blame
for the state of things.

Hands at ten and two
I control my fate
so I'm told
swerve into oncoming traffic
cause a cacophony
go out on a high note
I control my fate
but where the ****
do I wanna go
nowhere really
being awake
makes me uncomfortable
I see why so many
choose to give themselves
to more certain Hands.

They're people
Some are saints
Some are devils
Most are just
Somewhere in between.

some people
talk to themselves
no matter how many people
are actually in
the conversation.

I laugh
because i'm not
quite tall enough
to loom menacingly
over all my problems.

Made of words
Made of thoughts
Fragile as anything
Made of air can be
Little boxes
we all live in
Houses and trailers
Shelters and literal boxes
Can we blame other people
They're in boxes to
Of course we can.

Dancing hypocrites
Family values types
families
I value as props types
Cosby like those types
gropes at liberty
fracking in the garden of Eden
everything is burning
it was trans people
for sure.

Take my everything
condense compress
just a dingy bauble
hide it away
my phylactery
how can I be hurt
if i'm just a silly skeleton.