

On Your WayYou are on your way. You’re five years old And beneath the stacks of coloring books and blocks and board games You see the world with innocent eyes open wide and fingertips stretched toward the sky.On Your Way
You are on your way. You’re fifteen years old And beneath the prepubescent turmoil of raging hormones and inescapable pressures You see what lies ahead as the jaded rebel with or without a cause.
You are on your way. You’re twenty-five years old And beneath the ever-increasing pile of shit on the desk of your nine-to-fiver job


Paper MeThe drip drops don’t stop on the paper or the canvas or the— What is this again? Just one sec Let me check… Check it out. It’s not a paper or a canvas It’s you It’s me It’s my mind your brain and his body and What’s that? Oh yeah It’s your mom and your daddy, too and the chaos thatPaper Me
dots and drips and blots and blips all over you and me and me and you Dip the brush in the painted
pain that you claim It’s out out of my hands not in the plans that you planned on plan


TiredHey! Hey you! Listen up Hey— Look at me! I’m tryin’ to talk here—Tired
Can’t you see? ‘Cause I’m tired of it, you know Tired of the oppression Depression Indiscretion
Hey! Are you listening? I said I’m tired of it. Don’t give me your wink and a smile and shove me along A shrug or a hug and a nasty flu bug Listen to it!
All right, fine. Have it your way I’m going— Going— GONE.


A Cow for a CookieThe hand in the cookie jar Never comes out empty Unless you’re naked And emaciated And lyin’ on the floor In the Dust Bowl the cows never come home Because they’re lying dead in the fields Too long on a diet of dry grassy cud They wanted the cookies, too And now they’re dead for wanting So check that cookie jar once more Even though the cows have told you Time and time again— That jar is empty.A Cow for a Cookie
You know what.
Be proud of me.
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YOUR MOM MAKES ME EMO!
you know waht?
I am proud of you.
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"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having."
V.
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YOUR MOM MAKES ME EMO!
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