Life, Is

Life
Is twisted
Ropes
Frayed knots
Chafing
Glove skin
Hands
Blistered
Like rawhide
Deserts

Life
Is broken
Pallets
Frozen hoses
Chains
Rusted and
Cheap
Tricks, magic
Mistakes
Gambled
Stakes
Too high
For you
To smoke
Anymore
To come
Down

Life
Is masked
Villages
Unholy
Pilgrimage
Unknown neighbors
And parables
When spite
Your face
So nose
Cuts off
Truth smells
Rotten like
Lies

Life
Is delayed
Paychecks
Debt ridden
Depression
Bed ridden
Problems
Drinking problems
Hangover
The edge
Bottles
At the end
Empty
Like sleepless
Dreams

Life
Is salty
Blood
Tearful
Streams
Falling, just
Falling
In love
Holes
To disappear
Into
Tasting dregs
Bottom
Feeding
Life
Bleeding

Life
Ain’t shit
If shoe
On foot is
Other than
Left, right
Left right
In the way
To step
In it
Shit
To stick to
Your tread
Path going
In circles
Coming round
To what? Goes
Around