26 Oct. 2022

happy birthdayyyy to ya

“25 WAS A QUARTER TO LIFE”

25 IS A QUARTER OF LIFE

I SAVED SOME LIVES & SPENT THE REST

NIXED AMERICAN SPIRITS TO AGE 100

LIGHTHEADED SMOKING HUNDREDS

WET TAR QUENCHES SUMMERED MALAISE

I MISS THE PENNY-PINCHER DAYS 

MADE ENOUGH PROBLEMS TO THROW MONEY AT

MADE ENOUGH MONEY TO THROW PROBLEMS AT

4,800 QUARTER DOUBLE RL VEST

I FIBBED & LISTED IT AS THRIFT

THE LOSS OF GENTLENESS FEIGNS AS BRAVERY

A TASTE TOWARDS LIFE WITH WANED FLAVORING

MY HEART BIRTHS ANEW

TURNED TWINS; BROKE IN TWO

HERE’S TO YOU FOR POPPING MY MARASCHINO THROUGH

HERE’S TO ME SCRAPING STRATOSPHERES WITH JAGGED NAILS 

BATTERED & SPECKLED I APPRENTICED

THE MATTERS OF EXITING SOULS FROM OUT THEIR HENCHMEN

ECHOING FRECKLES OFF THE EUCALYPTUS

A WELL SWELLS SHUT; COMPELLED EACH OTHER OUT THE MUCK

TRUST TOMORROW’S NOSTALGIA FOGS US WHOLE

A QUARTER DEEP INTO A FRACTURED MOLD

Today I turn 25. Joke’s on me, I’m still alive!