I'd like to talk electricity, chemicals, living better through
I take medication and when I don't I feel effortlessly lost
thoreau would be so proud I cry at provocations that I would sneer at in better days
waiting for better days I can imagine them coming warm and sweet sunny fall days nippy but still safe
even winter seems like it could be all right in better days
but they aren't here yet I want to burn myself on them push myself nearer their fire than I can stand
I cannot bear to run away the ink runs off my maps staining my fingers till everything tastes bitter
trying to redraw in charcoal the places I know must be there but all the familiar landmarks are dragons now
and even when I do even when I remember and I even eat and sleep like I did when I was ok years ago, in a country I can't find now that might never have been there in the first place
even then I'm maybe not drowning but the air quality is a little suspect