anything that could be considered painful is so
in some measure because of the way
we've been designed by life + human genes
the stages like riptides we've been suddenly pulled through
long ago, so long ago, years ago
yanked from the black waters we found comfort in
into a new unbreatheable palace of disease
forgotten and meaningless
motion towards the next second, the next life
as if a different person
those experiences left a stain
on the lapel of my sick and scrambled brain.
in some measure because of the way
we've been designed by life + human genes
the stages like riptides we've been suddenly pulled through
long ago, so long ago, years ago
yanked from the black waters we found comfort in
into a new unbreatheable palace of disease
forgotten and meaningless
motion towards the next second, the next life
as if a different person
those experiences left a stain
on the lapel of my sick and scrambled brain.