Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This piece was written about a guy I was seeing for a while back in 2000 or 2001, the same guy I wrote 'Song of the Centaur' for, which is also included in this book.
-- The song is 'Spaceboy' by The Smashing Pumpkins, from their 1993 album Siamese Dream. :)
LONGNECK
Tip that longneck back, babe!
Keep sucking down those golden rivers of
such sweet succulence...
We are, all of us, searching for...
For what -- Meaning? Feeling?
... A sense of understanding?
Yet when found, belongs only in
instant gratification and
false satisfactions
of the brief yet lingering happiness in the
faces of others.
They are smiling. They are laughing.
... Are we?
The balance never was.
Those feelings, deep and true, when found,
you think aren't yours
Yet are all too much like the
blood that flows so freely
from your self inflicted wounds...
The balance never was.
Your worries, a speck of dust.
Your fears, imagined from within.
No problems, only actions, and reactions.
The balance never was,
and was never supposed to be.
And those sweet, succulent mongrels hover...
... waiting ...
To lap you up into their
Spoon-fed existence --
Let the feast begin!
-- Lynn Swenka
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