Wallow

Wallow

by dan ankers

Wallow in the sink

I stink

A little like beef jerky

Rank

I stank yesterday

don’t judge me if I did

oh please

It’s just that sometimes

waking up in this here world

seems a disease

I know I know

I should not complain

others have less than me

I see

People like me are why the world

stinks sometimes

but you need us

the farting sort

to remind you of the lies

This world is built upon them and you can’t escape these fleas

Because they get beneath your skin at night and they

jump inside you when you sneeze

But it’s alright

It really is

The way you itch

it meanz you live

and you are not

a parasite

or a mere ghost

just aping life

and you can see

the shady side

of proper dreamz

There is nothing for you here, declares the master

While the other great percent declare impostor

And the wonderful thing is

that everyone is wrong

and left

and right

at the exact same time

Because it’s a shifting sand of

reason

upon which we climb

And absolutely no one’s figured out its grains

of sanity yet

and yes nobody can connect the puzzle

where its met

we just bash them all

together

with a rubbery

mallet