P41NT ST1LL 1N PR3TTY GR34T SH4P3...

paint still in pretty great shape 
on the outside of my tomb; 
next time, gonna do purple 

3V3N TH3 M0ST B4S1C F0LKS...

even the most basic folks 
got artistic gibberish 
inside them; it gets stifled 

SC4TT3R MY 4SH3S 4R0VND...

 

scatter my ashes around 
the sixty-ninth mile marker, 
between Bremo and Scottsville 

DR34M1NG 4B0VT H4V1NG SH1T...

dreaming about having shit, 
but knowing I won’t get it - 
politics of being trash 

D0M3ST1C4T3D G4M3C0CK...

 

domesticated gamecock 
of a human being, trapped 
inside fences I don’t see 

H4RD N0T T0 F0LL0W P4THS L41D...

hard not to follow paths laid 
out for you; not as many 
cloverleafs as one would hope 

ST1LL M4K1NG P1LGR1M4G3S...

still making pilgrimages 
to American mosques of 
industrial fallacy 

C4RV1NG P03TRY 1NT0...

 carving poetry into 
rock faces where I live now - 
cold mountain meditations 

SVP3RL4T1V3 3X1ST3NC3...

 

superlative existence 
is a liberal pipe dream; 
keep it simple, and stupid 

TH3 M3D1C1N3 0VR R4GG3D...

the medicine our ragged 
asses needs has always been 
all around us, in the wild 

1NT3RN4L F3RM3NT4T10N...

 

internal fermentation 
of heart-first philosophy 
counters fast food disinfo 

B4TT3R3D C0NT41N3R 0F 4...

 

battered container of a 
body blemished by mistakes, 
gives patina of wisdom 

P3RF3CT10N 41N'T P0SS1BL3...

 perfection ain't possible 
when trapped in this human form; 
too much worshipping of self 

G3TT1NG L0ST 1N TH3 F00TPR1NTS...

 getting lost in the footprints 
I wish was just left behind, 
but online is forever 

N0 M4TT3R WH3R3 1 G0 1N...

 no matter where I go in 
late American empire, 
I leave digital footprints 

DR34MS 0F DR1V1NG 4FT3R TH3...

 dreams of driving after the 
horizon five or six days 
straight, and not coming right back 

N0T S0 MVCH W0RK1NG CL4SS 4S...

 not so much working class as 
I'm hating work it doesn't 
do shit to help my damn life class 

R3M1ND1NG MYS3LF T0 ST4R3 VP...

reminding myself to stare up 
at the sky far more often; 
too grounded to the wrong shit 

4TT3MPT1NG T0 VNT4NGL3...

attempting to untangle 
the deranged psychology 
ingrained into human mind 

R41NB0W 1N TH3 01LY MVCK...

 

rainbow in the oily muck - 
sign of inevitable 
primordial state return