Wednesday, October 19, 2011

34 four year truth

we spent every weekend night
driving
my dad's red Taurus

company
gas
credit card

looking to get lost
hoping to end up somewhere
surprising

or at least
alive

but it never happened
we always ended up
back home

disappointed by ourselves
and our options

being young and untraveled
I thought
everywhere was this mediocre

happily I report to you
I was wrong
but fuck

this town tried to swallow
us

did it's best to make us
SUV driving bankers
right wing subtly racist suburbanites

Christian
zombie
vampires

for a long time
I thought
the whole world was lying to itself

it was one hopeless fucking cage
full of deluded imbeciles

living at different addresses
comforted by the same lies

it seemed
it was either the mini-van
or the ghetto

no hope
no hope
and no surprises

it took three thousand miles
and a few drugs
to realize

traveling
ain't
a fool's paradise

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