My brain is a bowl of spaghetti
I can be turned with a greedy hand
And a rusty fork
Eating my thoughts
From an unwashed container
Please stop eating.
I don’t think I can afford
To lose another fork-full
another strand of memory
Let alone
Be mixed up
With the other ingredients
Poured into my skull
It seems I’m getting sloppy.
Refills are impossible
Because the more I try to stuff inside
The more the contents overflow
And the threads of words
Come spilling out
When I beg them not to
Well.
I hate contradicting myself
But without anyone eating
And without room for refills
The nutrients inside
Will begin to rot
And disintegrate
Into nothing but molded mulch
So everything I try to retain
Will be useless
and inedible
The filth accumulates.
Insanity will be the smell of my mind
It will control my every action
A single whiff
Strong enough
To lower the IQ of a genius
I’m losing myself.
I’d try to explain it
In understandable terms
But it seems the correct words
Were lost
when I was bitten into
And scattered
when I overflowed
This is what I tried to describe before:
My head is a box of noodles
I can be dented with a pinky finger
And a dull knife
Tasting my dreams
From a…
Hm.
Sorry.
What were we talking about?
Jan 13, 2018
Jan 13, 2018 at 12:27 PM UTC
My brain is a bowl of spaghetti
I can be turned with a greedy hand
And a rusty fork
Eating my thoughts
From an unwashed container
Please stop eating.
I don’t think I can afford
To lose another fork-full
another strand of memory
Let alone
Be mixed up
With the other ingredients
Poured into my skull
It seems I’m getting sloppy.
Refills are impossible
Because the more I try to stuff inside
The more the contents overflow
And the threads of words
Come spilling out
When I beg them not to
Well.
I hate contradicting myself
But without anyone eating
And without room for refills
The nutrients inside
Will begin to rot
And disintegrate
Into nothing but molded mulch
So everything I try to retain
Will be useless
and inedible
The filth accumulates.
Insanity will be the smell of my mind
It will control my every action
A single whiff
Strong enough
To lower the IQ of a genius
I’m losing myself.
I’d try to explain it
In understandable terms
But it seems the correct words
Were lost
when I was bitten into
And scattered
when I overflowed
This is what I tried to describe before:
My head is a box of noodles
I can be dented with a pinky finger
And a dull knife
Tasting my dreams
From a…
Hm.
Sorry.
What were we talking about?
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