by Jared Cantrell

Created on: July 22, 2008

Survival

Close your eyes.
Hide from everything
that makes you sleepy.
It's hard now
and it gets worse.
Sorry it gets worse.

If you choose that way
hold your mouth shut
so you don't cough them up.
If the other way.
Do it alone,
because no-one will support you.

They will say;
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
You have the wrong idea
and so on.

If you need attention,
then sleep around.
If you need food,
then make them pay for it.
If you need meaning,
then I don't know what to tell you.

There was a plan,
and it fell apart after the apple.
We're on our own now.
How to survive?
Lesson one:
don't kill yourself.

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