And So We Say

the pace of this movie,
is like amputations on the kitchen table

the way the song is sang
is like nails on chalkboards, made of styrofoam

is it pleasant to be alive?
no and yes are both acceptable answers,
but what questions can you easily say both to,
without being scorned?

the waves of the ocean,
are crashing in like a car crash, without any drivers or passengers

the way we stay alive when we should have been gone and long forgotten
make us all ask questions

is the world really all that round?
is it the air we breathe in today?
and such things are uncontrollable, when we say
no or yes

the birds are singing loudly
without vocal chords, or even tonsils, just for us

make us up out of your minds being if you can
and so we say, you can't
and so we say, you never will
and so we say, you are not even real

this is contortion, confusion, and a senseless mind of being
without being in the kind of mind for this kind of being
your wrist is plagued by the mannequins starring you down
as they once said
we are not fallen, we are not falling, we are everything you wished
without the courtesy of being dead