CRAIGSLIST LIFE

Every time I turn around

I do the same damn thing

Try to be everything

For another human being

And what does it get me?

Alimony

Child-support

Agony

22 days in court

An empty account

Bills I can't pay

Ramen

Peanut butter

Hamburgers

But no steak

Thrift shop clothes

Coupons

A new home -

Smaller than the last one

50 shades of hate

Garage sales

No one

And Anyone

50 new ways to

Masturbate

Restraining orders

The pain of separation

Feigning hope

And literal starvation

New jobs

That don't pay

Alcoholism

Monotheism

Then a need

To motivate

Spiritual apathy

Intolerance

Wondering

Who am I anyway?

Short on rent

Scars and schisms

Gaping wounds

Gaping holes

Fill the gaps

With latent goals

And defeatism

A new phone

A new number

Tired sleep

But no slumber

Chasing dreams

That never materialize

X friends

Former in-laws

And Ex- wives

The ecstasy of apathy

Indifference

To the old me

Changing minds

Changing bodies

Changing time zones

Exchanging microphones

For cell phones

Painful poetry

Dire inspiration

Turn myself -

Toward new inclinations

Emancipations

Proclamations

Delusions of grandeur

And new fixations

Loss of income

Loss of wages

Buried hopes

In varied stages

Frankenstein life

Dracula love

Trying to rebuild

In vain just broke

Loss of air

Stiff and choked

Loss of awareness

Too-far-gone

With no hope

Walking on

A tightrope

Hope for change

And loopholes

Search for change

To pay for smokes

Pick up furniture

From the side of the road

It's a craigslist life