We are in the future now.
In the past yesterday
is tomorrow, but some of
us didn't notice.
We subdivided dreams
into half gram
servings so they wouldn't
end. We
concentrated those into
the smallest possible dose
so we could savor every
morsel, taste every drop
of our life's Kool-Aid.
We lived sugar-free
to enhance the sweet,
and then ignored all of it.
We wrapped our fists around
excitement and squeezed its
juice out dry to ****
adrenaline cravings.
i have read enough Rimbaud
to see the symbolism.
i have read enough Hudgins
to know i, too, used to be sure.
i have read enough Petrosky
to sympathize...
Look, i'm a bear now, too!
i was wasted enough on land
for Eliot,
as fractured as cummings,
as subversive as Ginsberg,
but in the end i settled for breathing.
**DAS SOFA KING,
VICTORIOUS AT LAST.**
Nov 3, 2013
Nov 3, 2013 at 6:42 PM UTC
We are in the future now.
In the past yesterday
is tomorrow, but some of
us didn't notice.
We subdivided dreams
into half gram
servings so they wouldn't
end. We
concentrated those into
the smallest possible dose
so we could savor every
morsel, taste every drop
of our life's Kool-Aid.
We lived sugar-free
to enhance the sweet,
and then ignored all of it.
We wrapped our fists around
excitement and squeezed its
juice out dry to ****
adrenaline cravings.
i have read enough Rimbaud
to see the symbolism.
i have read enough Hudgins
to know i, too, used to be sure.
i have read enough Petrosky
to sympathize...
Look, i'm a bear now, too!
i was wasted enough on land
for Eliot,
as fractured as cummings,
as subversive as Ginsberg,
but in the end i settled for breathing.
**DAS SOFA KING,
VICTORIOUS AT LAST.**
Arthur Rimbaud, Andrew Hudgins, Anthony Petrosky, T.S. Eliot, e.e. cummings, Allen Ginsberg....all poets of greater measure than i.
i would think the sofa king reference is fairly obvious, but if not let me know in the comments and i will explain...
learning to fly is easy, it's bringing it in for a soft landing that ends up proving so very difficult...this poem is dedicated to taking control of ourselves.
