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mourning wood

I want to fix everything all the time Maybe that's why I'm greying early. Anxiety only feels good when I commit crimes Ironically, because it's always there in me. I think when I'm thirty I'll be bald Alopecia will hit me by the time I'm twenty five Can't breathe with palpitations, or so they're called With these heart murmurs, I'm amazed I'm still alive. Nostalgia makes me laugh and cry simultaneously I know I take myself far too seriously I'm tired of holding and losing things near and dear to me Like acid drops and alcohol my blood's relatively A relevancy and tell me, do I look infected to you? I hide behind pastimes and impulsive rap lines But nothing in the world could be farther from the truth With smashed cats on road sides and fast forgotten rhymes, I Wake up to Jim beam smiling over me Cover leaves and evergreens childishly wind chime I two-time everyone I meet to some subtle degree And I've told my mom to die one too many times But it's cool because without these angst phases I'd have no words to express the connectable times Which are the worst times, remember what I say LSD and new Mexico make me want to fly away Do I have a clue what I'm doing when I'm drinking at six thirty in the morning? Today, around noon, I met true doom On the train tracks of my Oklahoma culdesac There was a dog split in four separate pieces And though it was full of countless diseases I thought Jesus, no one needs to see that Considering the fabulous place we live at So we picked up his leg and his two fucking torsos And his head was twelve feet away from the track, more so Rotten his teeth crushed, his spirit forgotten Sought for life out of the fences he was brought in Though we looked, no collar was around So we put the poor bastard three feet underground Brian cline built a cross (he was tossed) And lost and crossed the best friend he fought And I forgot for a minute the duties I hate Because for once I did something that needed no reinstatement Mourning wood does no good and frankly neither do I Because when mom drinks she drives, and it puts suicide in my mind But I got other options left to use My throbbing hard on is sore, my bush blue and abused Tattoo bleeding through, misconstrued my good graces All these racists are faceless, playing miss Ohio's nameless At full blast, backward, like present turned to past If it were that simple, God knows maybe I'd last. Do I have a clue what I'm doing When I'm drinking at six thirty in the morning? Bible belt majority, getting snotty and disorderly Conformity torturing me, the owls hooting quarterly In minutes, it's finished, let's hit it and stick it This sickness is missing a home and I can't piss Coffee in my ass is uncomfortable, but a necessity, like a Suppository, strapped down the old man, the orderlies Are ornery. I'm horny but I'm tired of sex Wishing I could love someone I've never really met I can't rest at night with these relentless dreams Waking me up with cold sweats and hoarse screams My mind is reamed by the thought of Lucy in the mail All the while hoping my friends keep themselves out of jail I know this isn't hell, but I still feel like I'll fail Chasing my own tail out of the fear that this isn't real And don't tell me these restless moments are just deja vu I know I saw all this coming when I was dazed in my youth Swollen lymph nodes in my neck and in my back Blowin smoke right back, who will be the first to act? I'm tactless and laughless, and hapless, this mattress Had lasted, in fact it's madness, this last kiss? I've wracked it and cracked it with no decryption key With all this frustration flying around, no one can hit me But you scream all the way up the staircase And I hope to the devil I never forget your face.
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Written by
ryan-bowdish
American
Published
Oct 1, 2013
Lines·Words
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Notes

Wrote this a few years ago when living in Oklahoma. Thanks for the title miss Ohio's nameless to why? And Josh "yoni" wolf

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