today's the day i use capitol letters
and quit smoking and drinking
'cause money's tight and everything in between tastes the same
today's the day i find something to say
and forget rhyming schemes 'cause they don't mean a goddamn thing
today i quit swearing and blaspheming
and learn how to play the capitalists game
i'm gonna' learn how to write poetry right
and quit redundant phrasing
stop pretending like juxtapositions are clever
give a break to my broken liver
and trade nine dollar words for thrift shop verses
and stop searching for the perfect things to type
gonna' cease staring at blank pages as if they're full of potential
and leave them blank just in case
i'll find something funny to put in their place
exchange hope for truth and understand despondence isn't relatable
that giving up hope is hardly commendable
that anyone can hate their state of mind
but finally learn that only a few people can live in their skull
without trying to break it open
and spill its contents on the world's floor
give me more, give me less
a penny or a shot glass
embrace the similarities therein
cheap chemical thought isn't glamorous
whiskey romance isn't amorous
and drinking isn't really a sin
but today's the day i use capitol letters
and use punctuation the way the ancients intended
today's the day i find something worth saying
and stop praying for my life to be mended
i'll quit using rhyming schemes to tell these pages what i mean
and leave them blank if i please
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