I’m tryna stay human in an inhuman era

At the desk again introducing human error

Into the process. The progress of new endeavors

Is slowgoing, nonetheless I get it glued together

Eventually, I hope to stand up to scrutiny

I try to know for sure, certainty’s illusory

I try to stay abreast amid the mess and lunacy

And not get caught among the numb with empathy immunity

Surrounded by commodified community

Beset by advertiser importunity

Upset because of ruling class impunity

And how there’s money to be made by maximum disunity

It makеs me wanna turn hermit

And sit alone at homе and smoke and spin some Galt McDermot

The pessimistic me assumes that doom is predetermined

While the optimistic me’s been bumping too much David Berman

So I switch it up to Prodigy—

Attempt implementing a fuck-it-we-ball policy

Still, ambivalent about indulging in frivolity

While much of what I see is frivolous without apology—shameless

How the Famous Amos disintegrates

I look around, we’re all texting on the interstate

Regret my order cause I’m jealous of your dinner plate

A vanishingly few things are not poisoning my inner state

Recently been focusing on decency

Recognizing how the things that take a piece of me

Can move me further from the person that I need to be

To do right by the people in my life who still believe in me