1. Some days it feels like
my mind is going to explode
with all the riff raff that is floating around in there.
They put graffitti on the walls
and they run around smoking blunts
and they make it feel
like some kind of alternate universe
or maybe
it is more like a post apocolyptic world
where they remember only bits
and pieces of what the real world is like
and they are forced to create
a new kind of reality
where they are struggling every single day
just to make it through another day
alive
breathing
functioning.
It's not a world that I have any control over
and the riff raff don't have much control either.
They are just doing what they need
to do to survive
to make it through another day
alive
breathing
functioning.
They are just doing what they have to do.
And so am I.
I'm doing what I have to do to keep my mind from exploding
to prevent the riff raff from seeping
into my every day life
and to make through another day
alive
breathing
functioning