Categories > Original > Poetry > Life's A Bitch, Then We Die
I’m older today.
This age,
I don’t feel as if it entitles me.
Ooh.
You’re in for it.
This is always the toughest time period.
Ma looks at me funny.
Watches me closely.
She’s fucking paranoid.
Just like her daughter.
Or is it I,
Who is the paranoid one,
Just like my mother.
Which came first?
The chicken or the egg?
Well Ma’s older so….
But I’m more insa…
But I don’t know her like that…
And nor does she…
But how long has she been…
How long have I…
Eh.
Ma gave me her phone every now and then.
Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday.
Thanks.
I don’t know these people.
I never know people.
Just like Daddy.
I know Daddy came before this egg.
Long before.
Ma tells me stories.
Stories that make me block her out and defend him,
Like a bear and a cub.
Whore.
Cold.
Cheater.
Liar.
Sex.
STDs.
Half-children.
Daddy got older too,
Three days ago.
He doesn’t care.
I do.
My seemingly immortal father,
Is growing gray and low.
That’s creepy.
I don’t like birthdays anymore.
They’re creepy.
This age,
I don’t feel as if it entitles me.
Ooh.
You’re in for it.
This is always the toughest time period.
Ma looks at me funny.
Watches me closely.
She’s fucking paranoid.
Just like her daughter.
Or is it I,
Who is the paranoid one,
Just like my mother.
Which came first?
The chicken or the egg?
Well Ma’s older so….
But I’m more insa…
But I don’t know her like that…
And nor does she…
But how long has she been…
How long have I…
Eh.
Ma gave me her phone every now and then.
Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday.
Thanks.
I don’t know these people.
I never know people.
Just like Daddy.
I know Daddy came before this egg.
Long before.
Ma tells me stories.
Stories that make me block her out and defend him,
Like a bear and a cub.
Whore.
Cold.
Cheater.
Liar.
Sex.
STDs.
Half-children.
Daddy got older too,
Three days ago.
He doesn’t care.
I do.
My seemingly immortal father,
Is growing gray and low.
That’s creepy.
I don’t like birthdays anymore.
They’re creepy.
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