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Greener On the Otherside

We sip green beer bottles under lime lights

With her ginseng tongue talking calming evergreen

And her eye’s are envious and big like granny smith apples

And now we’re downing absinthe on the other side

Laughing, getting drunk, and eating green grapes

Her skin is smooth and cool jade

But fragile

A cut under a blade of grass

But it’s emerald, and it’s all the riches we need

Because while everyone was playing life like a game with rules.

We were breaking fences and creating unfair stipulations for others.

 

No one is passing the finish line if I keep moving it up.

It’s not me raining on a parade

I’m closing down every street.

 

But still…

We have the pill poppers and the drop outs

The can do’s take up all the good face time so they say

But all I see is a weak person

Socially awkward isn’t an excuse

 

So if we’re all

Wild animals

Then we

Eat our young

And if you’re into that

Then we’re talking business

But until then

Write your eulogies on crumpled up bath room paper

I get the bland fairy tale story, rock band, slam poetry, baked cookies, digital photographs.

And it’s force fed down my mouth

Like a baby

**** it all

I want things to better

And I expect so much more…

 

If our lives are just a waiting room for something better

We’re stranded

So I’m leaving behind the white walls

And the cool

Linoleum

Floor

So I may be wildly foolish

But a slight chance at splendor

Is better than misery as a sure things

I'm moving up the hill

to see the other side

-Kevin T

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