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Live My Lief: Selected & New Poems, 2008-2015 by Steve Roggenbuck

azrael2112314's review

5.0

im in constant pain

i have a messiah complex

i speak altruistically
yet i feel the crushing vise
of existentialism

i love you
i dont know you

im building an empire
a tower of babel

i smell my farts
im not proud of them

when i write love poems
you think they're about someone
else
...they might be...
...or they might be about me...

OH GOD
THERE'S SOMETHING HORRIBLY WRONG
BETWEEN ME
AND MY PARENTS
THEY'RE A DISTANCE FURTHER AWAY
THAN YOG SOTHOTH
FROM EARTH
THEY'RE CLOSER
THAN MY HANDS
AN INCH AWAY
FROM A LIT STOVE