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A Different Beat

  • Feb 20
  • 1 min read

I march to a different beat than that of the normal creeps I’m not normal I’m about as normal as an aching back

The world sometimes looks queer through my strange visions of dialectical solutions and controversial delusion

I try to keep my head up high as others stare and sometimes they gawk and I decide not to flip em off

It’s the natural disorder where you take two different beasts and try to compare them and align them and make them one and the same with a sort of formulaic approach to life and all of life’s mysteries

I’m free I’m about as free as I can be I’m walking in my suede shoes and I’m knocking on your door but no one’s home so instead I stand out in the rain and get soaked

It’s a weird world when you’re the weirdo I’m a weird man in a land of strange occurrences where no one listens but the world is immense with despair

I wonder why do I care why be responsible when the earth will turn regardless of my behaviors on this planet life goes on and I’m stuck here spinning in circles

Forever is the longest moment I can surmise in my current state of confusion I’m bemused by individuality because so much of it has been swindled

It’s all a lie being a citizen in school I learned for a population to be civilized it must have a written language even the cavemen had a way to record history

 
 
 

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