the artist attempts
to show us more
beyond
They fail
this is all their is
amazing as it is
it gets so boring.

Lowest of the low
Or so it seems
No shield of pride
Just immense
Uncertainty
No conflicting ego
To debate others
Even when they're
In the right
They don't believe it.

Hyde in the light
Hyde in the dark
Monsters flourish
In places covered
By apathy  
In places run
By jekyll.

I'm not exact
so rather
than go under
i'll go over
it might
be a touch
dramatic
but
the viewing audience
loves drama
so that's okay.

An ill found everywhere
especially prevalent in society's
higher echelons
but the lower folk are not free
from its effects
do as I say
not as I do
perhaps its simply
a human foible
and no cure is available
aside from awareness
like so many woes.

Hypothetical questions
are they worth anything
hypothetically what
would you do
really you don't know
you weren't there
perhaps if you answer
a hypothetical question
with an honest answer
we can know your inclination
but that's about it.

Because I need
To know
The answers
Were varied
Based on feeling
Based on logic
All funneled
Through
Human fallibility
I'll ask again later
Maybe
With so many answers
I can find the truth.

Will my claims
Sway you
I don't think they will
Would more certainty
In my voice
do the trick
If you couldn't see my eyes
Would this be easier
Don't know why I bother
Except that I don't want
You to suffer.

That's not to say
I won't say it
I will
with a strait face to
But it's a lie
Nothing personal
I just kinda ****
At telling the truth.

Kind of a savage
Less than realistic
Down for a party
The Id is all about
The fun and pleasure
With the word
Consequence
Not in its dictionary.

I can't read your mind
But based on what
I thought I knew
I thought we were enemies
I never would have guessed
You thought
Me a friend.

my bad
I fritter my time away
with my head
buried in the sand
looking for clouds.

The worst lies
are the ones
we believe even though
we know there false
the lies we want
to be true
the lies we need
to be true
the ones that
when uncovered
leave the world
just a little bit darker.

I would be
A better me
if I knew how
and didn't hate change
and I was someone else
Truthfully
I'd prefer it if the world
did the changing.

I'd be a billionaire
I could mine Your heart
And bottle all the feels
No **** you say
People would ******
For a happy day
But there are a million
Different pills for that
But no I say it isn't that simple
Horror sadness revulsion
Their is a market for all
If perhaps a niche one
The fees shall be exorbitant
What's that you ask
What will be your fate
Why don't worry old chum
You might be a tad hollow
But you'll be duly compensated
Minus certain expenses.

I would nibble
on your skull
but
only a little.

I'd be
That Gray cloud
That hangs over
Your head
Obscuring the sun
And raining
on your parade
Nothing personal
It's just
The weather pattern
That I am.

So much history
in those old walls
so many secrets overheard
if you could would you spill them
like roaches looking to spread
better knock it down
just in case
parking lots tell no tales.

I try not to blaspheme
If only to avoid reprisal
But I have to wonder
What would you do
If you had that job
I know what I would
And it's best left unsaid
It's just a philosophical question
If the divine exists
They probably won't retire soon
So does the answer matter
No or yes
Either way I can always ask.

What do you do
when you have
nothing to do
think about death
or what you could do
not doing anything
but thinking of all
you could
could take hours.

It was gold
and full of nice things
but I was immaterial
all I could do was look
as the demons played
with what should have been mine

Well
I have an idea
I don't like it
I don't want it
But I have it
I have a few actually
They **** to
What are you going to do
Nothing much probably
I don't claim the sight
But I expect regret.

Tick Tock Tick Tock
yes I know
your always moving
I hear you passing
So slowly when i'm glum
and a dead run when
things are good
each tick tock
is so precocious
and that dam clock
won't let you forget it.

I wish you wellish
or I don't actively
wish you harm
I have my reasons
there good in my eyes
mayhaps i'm wrong
but either way
you needn't worry
I would never hurt you
in a way the courts could prove.

For what it's worth
which I bet
is not much
it surprises me
If you were here
I couldn't say it
but here in cyberspace
where I know
you never tread
I guess I can
funny.

Dead men tell no tales
but the living are happy
to tell tales for them

It *****
being the protagonist
and antagonist
in the same story
kinda pointless really
no matter what you do
you're losing.

I'm
Not overly
Attentive
Subtlety often
Eludes me
And details
Of important
Are often forgotten
Perhaps I should
Go slower
Or fetch
Some adderall.

they closed the library
because of you
so I had to dine
with the creatures
I don't know
who you were
but I know
how you left.

No
i'm pretty decisive
well
I think I am
no one
is certain of everything
probably.

crawlin up and down
my person
I can feel it
but I cant see it
its dam uncomfortable
but supposedly
if I take this and that
I can battle the invisible menace
I will feel better soonish
if it doesn't **** me.

You have something
Something you love
It fills you with
Something good
Until you find
That it's really only
A malformed imitation
It may have come first
In the product line
But it most surely
Is not superior.

so so dull
right up until
things collapse.

oh if only
it had been noted
at an earlier date.

alas perhaps we
can learn from this
or we could point fingers.

What weeds
cannot be taken out
none
all things
can be shaped
to perfection
depending
on how you define
perfection.

how you change
by and large
is bit by bit
you are what you are
till you are something new
maybe you can feel it
maybe you need a mirror.

the pen exploded
possible stories
smeared the pocket
more pens exist
but that was a lucky one
or so It was thought.

You appear
and cause distress
then you away
why to where
remains untold
rotten antagonist.

You look like me
you act like me
but you aren't me
my dear shadow
this is a problem
though not your fault
it is mine
for I tried to attain immortality
through cloning
unfourtunately for us both
you are but a poor intimation
maybe i'll just write a book.

I'm sorry
such tragedy
has befallen you
but you know
it's kinda your fault
if you hadn't been
so such and such
you would not
have been a target
or maybe it was bad luck
and you shouldn't
be blamed
for the terrible things
done to you
how should I know.

It's true
Some things
Are so obvious
They are all
But invisible.

You can't joke about that
it is
in a pro pri at  dude
or it is now and here
maybe then or there
it's all cool
but now it's just wrong.

Insanity as I've been told
is doing
the same dam thing
over
and
over
and
over
and expecting something
different
not sure if that's
a clinical diagnoses
but if so
I guess humanity
is insane.

A mixed tape of my
least favorite people
plays in my head
saying things
I find far
too logical.

your system is madness
and I can't interpret it
where is your user manual
or a pamphlet at least
these errors almost certainly
could have been avoided
you will receive
a negative review on yelp.

Hi
I'm Michael
Or Mike
Either will do
I want you to think
That I'm perfect
I'm not of course
But if you believe it
Just for a while
Maybe you'll hire me
And be too tired
To fire me when
You find out the truth.

who are you
when the lights are off
bad good human
I have heard that's
when we're at our
most honest
when we're anonymous
personally even when
I am all alone
I can still hear
what I was taught
maybe that's my conscious
or my fear of getting caught.