and you get more

ain't drugs

These words affront me every time.

Drugs are not recreational 

Drugs are drugs

And cars are cars and brains are brains and 

stupidity is stupidity and imagination is precisely and

pins are not ever needles and love

cannot possibly be pain, and sex is, 

and a smile is nothing but a smile, please be

clear

a word is only a word but always a word

and that is the word that it is

a dictionary is another word for a liar

and that is a lie 

by definition

We live in narrow times that are always coming to an end

- at least to this little ego

on hubristic claims to custodianship

we must save the planet, I hear

parroted by kids and such

and the Anzacs died to save us

except they didn't

they just beastly died

and our planet isn't dying

but so many of our prey are

and so it goes, and will go

until maybe we all go

to nothing

and the planet will spin on

throbbing and thickening

with life, but not as we know it