My foot has snapped

Don‘t fetishize the shit I say

Just watch the way I move

Don‘t watch the way I do my thing

Dismiss my fading youth

I walk atop, these legs of ash

Will never bring me far

My crumbling towers made of words

I‘ll keep them in a jar

Joke‘s on me, a joke of a man

Making everybody smile

And when it‘s dark 

I entertain myself

And giggle for a while

I never lived

I only smoke

I seldom leave this house

I‘ve wasted years

Convincing you

To never leave this house

The piece of shit I strive to be

Will always be below me

I hop on trains but never sober

Always searching home

I never talk to other folk

I always clutch my phone

I never see myself this way

I only write it down

Another round, another town

I lost too many dogs

I think it‘s all related now

The market might collapse

My foot has snapped

I cannot walk

I‘ll never run away

And when it heals

I‘ll still go back

To paths I‘ve crossed before


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