Onion Mantra

Too lazy to submit poetry
Too lazy to be Jewish
Too lazy to fix my underarm fungus
Too lazy

Too tired to wake up and run
Too tired for physical activity
Too tired to not drink coffee and cleanse
Too tired

Too overwhelmed to organize
Too overwhelmed to contact relatives and friends
Too overwhelmed to believe in anything
Too overwhelmed

Too smart to quit my job
Too smart to fall delinquent with bills
Too smart to watch the news
Too smart

Too stupid to stop making the same mistakes
Too stupid to change
Too stupid to understand politics
Too stupid

Too late to lower my income
Too late to live a spiritual life
Too late to start with a clean slate
Too late

To whom it may concern
To charge me with some crime
To better get a hold on my intent
To harm

To anyone who cares
To become a better person
To clear a name beyond shadow of doubt
To anyone

To never know why these things are done
To always have an issue with others
To constantly suffer in happiness
To live

To stop pretending this story is real
To drift upon the smoky mist that rises to Valhalla
To leave things unfinished as a sad mark of mortality
To die

To candy coat the reasons
To bittersweet the ending
To make meaning out of chaos
To mark

To make mantras from molehills
To find some peace in the end
To divvy up belongings
To set

To overproduce overproduce overproduce overproduce overproduce
overproduce
To become a squeaky cog that can't stop but barely works
To salvage an identity by giving up all that is important up until
right now
To go
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8.21.09

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