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Obligatory Peter panisms

My brain doesn’t fire

Synapses the way I want it to

Anymore.

 

It just shorts out

Causes a commotion

Leaving me on the floor.

 

I got a few to no tricks up my sleeve.

But these idiots keep putting faith in me

Like filling a plastic bag with more plastic bags.

I can’t see any reason to the way I’ve been living.

I’m fighting myself by instinct.

If you build a multitude of clever one liners

On being “Angsty and smarmy”.

Then when you run out angst and smarm

Your basically ******

 

So I’ve been trying to reinvent myself

For the kids.

The little bastards with the confidence to keep stars from falling.

But I haven’t seen a gleam in ages.

All I see is an empty sky reflecting in my hollow head.

I try to sleep it off

But I just wake up feeling dead.

I could go find a firing squad,

But that’s not what I want to say at all.

My brain isn’t working the way I want it to.

If this is growing up, we’re ******

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Oct 3, 2011
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