I AM A SPEEDING TICKET
Waiting to happen
Velvet grey storm clouds
Obscure dark tears.
Death at the finest,
And i gasp for breath underneath the
Velvet sky.
We run,
Run
Run
Like as the lemmings
Leaping off
Cliffs.
Like as the
Incorrect grammar you
Love
To patronize.
Dig fingers
Deep, deep.
Yes.
And the grainy sand is there,
Just like she said it would be.
Gym class didn't
Prepare you for
This,
With its small spaces where you
Might die of
Claustrophobia
Before
Overworkage.
Gasp-laugh at the thought
Because delusion comes easy here.
I am a speeding ticket
Waiting to happen.
With acquaintance like friends, who forget
Your own name,
Because delusion comes easy here.
And
Crash
Crash
Slamming into
Net.
Delusion comes easy here.
Nothing could prepare you for this.
Because a thousand laps and wall sits don't matter
When this is what you do.
My hands
Are bloody with
Astro turf,
DELUSION COMES EASY HERE
And I just want to pour that water
Over yourself and be done with it.
By now you
Wouldn't even care,
If suddenly
It happened.
Time enters a no passing zone.
I am a speeding ticket
Waiting to happen
I
Hurt.
And burn
And laugh
And cry.
And
I am a speeding ticket
Waiting to happen.
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