Friday, December 4, 2015

It's gotten to a point
where the devil won't even buy my soul –
he said it's too broken and there’s no way
he could make a profit.
All I wanted for it was a few 2 milligram bars of xanax
and a cheap bottle of brandy,
but apparently I ain’t even worth that.

But maybe it's all for the best
because if I really am that broken
then at least I know damn well
I've got some character –
a rusted tractor rotting away gracefully
at the edge of a barren field in Kansas
filled with stars...

I’d 'wanna sit somewhere like that
to spend the night drinking
and then sleeping the day away,
not someplace where I know there’d be
an angry old farmer up before dawn
to chase my plastered ass off his property
with a shotgun.

And so it seems to have come to this,
when all my fields have finally died
and I can sit back and harvest

the moon with my eyes.