SHOCK THE MONKEY

the subtleties under the apparent

it is the idea
it is understanding
it is seeing the horror
and finding a way to go on

i struggle
i reject those who live as if they know
who think their beliefs are paramount
beliefs based only on the desire for them to be true

tell me something real

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waiting

i’m waiting, my whole life i’ve been waiting, and sometimes they describe it so that i still believe it is, somewhere. do you know what i mean? i want to stop waiting, start living, but i don’t even know what that means. i want to crawl inside an e. e. cummings poem and then my heart will burst and pieces of me will fall glittering and content.

perhaps they shouldn’t tease me so. then I would give up my hopes and learn to live in a flat world, satisfied with flat people.