we are

products

of our parents

products

of our experiences

products

of our generation

products

of our economy

we are products

sold

to the highest bidder

sold

for a paycheck

sold

to an employer

sold

half our waking lives

sold

to someone else

that we don’t love

what are we thinking

are we thinking

we are products

unhappiness lives in the gap
**
the gap between who I want to be
and the reality of who I actually am
**
the secret to happiness
is really so simple
**
never measure myself
against the gap in front
only the one behind

Monday night walk
past the school
a meeting inside
addicts of alcohol
collectively struggle
against individual weakness

I do not judge them
in their anonymity
promising to be less
than they were before

I just pass by
silently thankful
that my addiction
does not have a group
trying to take it away from me

I am a writer
I can give you meaning

I can give you enlightenment
I am important

you should read
what I write
so that you might see
as clearly as me
so that you might think
as clearly as me
or is it “as clearly as I?”

…are you still there?

I’m such a loser

Road Rage

**
did you just cut me off
did you just try to hit me
are you f***ing serious
bring it on mother f***er
I’ll destroy your stupid ass
if I had a gun…
if I knew where you lived…
I’d rid the earth of your entire family
Darwin would thank me

**

it’s my right of way afterall
and your life
isn’t worth more than that
God Bless America

secrets

**

I have a few
ok, many
but yours are worse
I know they are
otherwise
how could I live with myself

**

you are not a bad person
just slightly worse than me
I still accept you

**

now I feel better…
about myself
another secret