A pinch of tense relief. A keen mortality

While I’m playing Viewtiful Joe

Or watching Northern Exposure

Sure, I’ve had the smoke intrude on even quieter times

So sure it trickles through to minds much heavier than mine

And I half-wonder how to phrase it

To the flies drawn to the light;

To adirondack chairs who don’t like to discuss

Half-wonderings why

That frequency’s louder than ever before

You’ve got pliable energy but whatcha using it for?

And if you’re feeling how you feel

Then just don’t feel anymore

And go when you decide to board

That travelator up through the trap door

That spider in the corner has lived here since October

You’ve mutually agreed you’ll both let each other be

So long as he’ll lend an ear

To all of the paragraphs you’ve scrawled

You won’t hit him with a sandal;

Paper towel him to the lawn

And he half-wonders while he’s stretching

Yards of silk along your wall

How someone with such a simple problem

Can’t keep it solved

That frequency’s louder than ever before

You’ve got pliable energy but whatcha using it for?

Now if you’re feeling how you feel

Could you not feel anymore

And go when you decide to board

That travelator up through the trap door?

That sensation of irrational guilt that you get

When you don’t fuel your day by pounding your head on cement

Carve little castles from the wax that builds up that you can’t

Separate yourself from no matter the time that you spend

Talking to your friends, tossing in pocket change and closing your

Eyes, wringing your hands, hoping it’ll somehow form a stent or

Passageway allowing evening traffic to move through

No questions asked, no questions left

No whys to wonder, split in half

That frequency’s louder than ever before

You’ve got a fiery energy

But whatcha yellin’ at me for?

If you’re feeling how you feel

Could you not feel anymore

And go when you decide to board

That travelator up through the trap door?