To grow up in America
Young, white, male
I drink Robitussin (4 fun)
I'm pulled between extremes
and it keeps me going
and it's killing me
I can't believe how I got here
Sexy drugs and Rock N' Roll
Madness,
It's a wonder I'm alive
(to see the SUN)
As children we learned
Learned the child's freedom
Learned to procrastinate our birthright
Older we,
Heavy officers hungry for adolescence,
Stumbled backwards,
Learned the Gold Rule
In high-school
We forgot that we were led
by a kindergartener who came into a
fifth grader graduated grammar school
full of ideas about the 1st Amendment
to learn the price of silence
Hung between 2 worlds,
We learn the worst of both
Television sloth reminds of death
The air here doesn't let you go:
it hangs on
A chair is your throne
then a prison
Mansion confinement
Window eyes
A grim, expected surprise
Who dug these insane walls
around my spirit
around my fence?
Whose blueprint?
Unanswered phone alert
Who hurt you in your own
house
Was it a cat, or a mouse?
Hey!
I saw you there in the corner of
shadows, sitting
And in my head we got Mexican
food that I wouldn't eat
and smoked cigarettes that I don't
have
and these poems left my page
and these dreams left my head
Train tracks on a bridge
We forgot ourselves and broke
bottles
Standing above
Boats on the river
Follow the tracks down a cement
jump,
Humping the rail
Kicking rocks
A train
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