The all encompassing brain
I took my brain out yesterday
I set it on the counter for all to see
It flopped and jingles in all the wrong ways
I sat there, just looking at if for days
Worms of jealousy
seemed to eat at the left side
And flies of insecurity
created an unpleasant buzz
Grayness was spreading just because
loneliness caused a slight hole in the middle
Where I feared it might collapse into a puddle
I realized that desperation must keep it together
Quite simply what else do I have?
Huffing and puffing I refused to put it back in
Why would I want that horrendous thing
To eat at me from within
Soon I began to whither and shrivel inside
Everything dripped away revealing
That nothing that had been could coincide
Without that horrendously pulsing
Brain
Jealousy, insecurity, loneliness, and corruption
Vanished
Leaving a corpse without direction
And a heart beating for reasons which were extinguished
People passed on by without judging
And yet without judging there is also no feeling
Because there is no point to talking to a shell
Without really anything to tell
With the bad also went the good
In everything there is both
So remember the genius
The comfort and the heart of gold
Only come when you complete the mold
Take up your brain and smile
Because something like you
Only comes once in awhile
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