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Wanna Be My Friend?

Let's break all the tension with the pretense of my presence.

Yes, I'm insensitive--but there's no other incentive others can give--

And while I'm not sure I could prevent it, I swear to no god I'm inventive!

 

Yes,

My hatred is incessant--ever present--and it's what I hold most sacred.

I'm a naughty narcissist with a nasty list of wasted kisses,

And I won't say that I'll miss 'em, 'cuz I'm the type who never misses.

 

I'm a hopeless romantic with a new sense of Tantric hope,

It's the antics of a frantic mind, but I'm too calm to cope.

They say I'm a raving, violent--rarely silent--tyrant with a craving

for the obscene,

Though, while I'm mean, I'm rarely seen within a mob or in a scene.

 

I'll admit I've got a streak, but--if you'd stop to take a peek--

You'd see a Buddhist, not a nudist, who's less a demon than a geek.

I'm oblique and I'm obtuse (do these math puns work for you?) yet I'm rarely never right;

Get my angle? Catch my drift? I might thrash, but, man, I'm thrift!

Hold on shift: I'M SCREAMING NOW!!

Don't know why; don't have a cow!

Remember that? That 90's rap? Look at me then; that piece of crap!

Shot down! Torn up! Shut in! Turned out!

Lips are sealed; inside I'd shout,

'Bout just how bad I wanted out!

Enraged and crazed; cravin' razors; a victim hiding from all saviors!

Turned to the pen to brace for the knife,

Started writin' and saved my life.

It's funny to say my life got better the day I started a suicide letter...

 

But letters turned to words and those words became whole worlds,

And before my very eyes a whole legacy unfurled!

I was GOD--not just a slob--but a shaper of all things,

And the schemes that I'd been dreaming shifted into scribing,

And I never stopped since then; it's why I'm still alive!

 

So my insanity became vanity as calamity turned to amity.

Sheer pessimism became untamed narcissism,

But if the mind's a prison then consider me jail broken.

Outspoken, re-awoken; take a moment to let that soak in.

That a boy doubtful of tomorrow could ditch the sorrow,

And become an immortal--though immoral, not totally amoral.

 

So yea, I've got my faults; I'm a sensory assault,

And while I don't mean to offend I'm just a product of the ends.

Played with fire; I got burned.

Dared to aspire; I was turned.

So I inquire to you sires as I march out of the fires:

You've seen my darkness and know my story--beginning, middle, end--

My name is Nathan Squiers, do you wanna be my friend?

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American
Published
Dec 7, 2014
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