drill.drill.drill

spill all the takeovers
tangents and policies
scrapes with nature
beauty pageants and posturing

mild survival
tactical stratagem

here's my semblance
heroes and podiums

dancing with the gravel
emory boards and dually tempered melodies

you're a metal detector
a misinformed detective

entering a bid on your indecisiveness

pot stripped pacifist
tailgating with bible revivalists

steer clear of the post suffering
down on your bruises
one episode away from dismissal

this all means nothing in steps
frivolous spending
no return on your efforts

bought.sold.exchanged.

trail away.
pale and immunities in discourse

this is not the dream of pastels.
we shade our dignity with dissappointment
and reluctant ingenuity.

barbers, barkers of tree found aspiration
stay in your clothes for the moment
out of your skin
barely breathing thin
wafers of waistlines and absentee smokes

magic on your fingertips
haze on your beards, fuzz on your complexion

i'm not archer, no lingerer of future tense
headed dull mind shriller of strength

bend at bill
collect the rent
stop.stop.stop.

reinvent.

noted

we can sit and romanticize these things

but in our day's last gasp, 

we both know it's all purely 

witticism and disneyland fantasies