Monday, November 10, 2025

i only smoke when i'm sad

 

what's another skinned knee?
another lap around the weekend?


another chance to conquer nothing

and give in to the comfort of not changing?


well i have risked life and lung

for a chance at cheating grief


death take me seven minutes sooner

spare me the lecture


what’s the harm in letting myself give in

so long as i dont give up


i cling to life like a sailor thrown from his vessel

who happens upon some buoyant wreckage


the wreckage clings to me, it is me 

we're flotsam and jetsam


if it makes you sad to see me devoured

think of the wonderful meal i made


food for the celestial Crab

who never goes hungry


eaten by a monster sounds majestic

drowned at sea so common


i only stop swimming

when i can't see land


if you could smell my breath

you would learn my secret


I would tell you this much

I only smoke when I’m sad


in my heart, besides smoke

there is nothing


like a cigarette, im done with this one

i can light another


i only swim when i start to drown

i only smoke when im sad