Lego

Mealy-mouthed sub-optimal consumer

Filled with a black bile tar heart

Feathers fringed tinged dark with fear

Red and Green with envy

All stops and starts

Guttural ululations cut short

Unsure of any holy days but

Waiting for the celebrations all the same

A meaty hunger seeking heat

Sinking further into a cold war

With self-aggrandized quantities of self-hate

A life spent light without engine checking

Teeth hide a hidden jaw beneath

Wishing for ducts to duck in

Aground to be subsumed by

Self-absence to succumb to

Shameful cyclical display lights

Heads up but eyes chasing dopamine

Some hits that point in all directions

Unhealthy time spent saving screens

Suspending bottles up in treetops

Or down in darkened hollowed holes

Hoping you'd send for help yourself

So that I could shower you in love

For in the mirror I've built a door

A residence for useless eaters

Where my old versions just get older

And farther and farther away from you

Never good at building bricks

But dying to let go all the same

Never thought I'd have a future

So I never learned to fucking plan

Crass series of unserious disasters

Eating every breadcrumb trailed

Seeking guidance toward your doorstep

Open heart and empty pail

A castle built and now withstanding

Us reaching rest still hand in hand

Patching flaws in walls like mad

I'll bring the bucket, you the sand

Lego

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