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20 Years Old Is:

20 is half stampede dust cloud / half death sentence
20 is all one liners
20 is the rest stop from horror movies
20 is when life moves too fast and too slow simultaneously
20 is when change stops and starts at will
20 is uncomfortable in bed, uncomfortable in the head
20 is breaking condoms and failing transcripts
20 tears at you, reminds you of 17, reminds you of 15
20 reminds you of how ignorant you really were at 17, at 15
20 doesn’t get better
20 is when you realize you’ll die broke
20 is when you realize that others will not die broke
20 is an invalid I.D., an invalid viewpoint, and an invalid poem
20 is rejection
20 is rejection letters
20 is rejected edits
20 is dejected sentiments
20 is dejected relationships
20 is fucked up.
No matter what anyone tells you 20 is not 21
19 isn’t 20 for that matter – or 21 to 22
20 is a gig with no venue
20 is anticipation
20 is the cockroach waiting to be stomped
20 is a canvas that’s too colored to start over
20 leaves textures on your skin
20 is part insomnia part mental health part medication
better yet, 20 is all medication
20 is the starting gun when you were too stoned to remember you were in the race
20 is the Seinfeld series twice
somewhere around 20,000 is the poverty line and
20 still relies on birthday checks as income
20 is somewhere around 7,000
20 is researching jaundus
20 is a bad investment
20 is moving 4 times a year but still stuck in the same shithole town
20 is immense input with little return
20 reminds me of vinyl records, squeaking about full wave form sound
20 can’t compete with the iPhone
20 didn’t loose his legs in ‘Nam
20 may still write that on his “homeless, hungry” sign
I heard that 20 got hit by a scooter and told people he was running the bulls in Spain
20 knows he doesn’t know and makes shit up
20 doesn’t fuck around
20 is running the bulls in Spain
20 is like Bitch’s Brew if Miles were sober
20 is constructed like a Mitch Hedberg joke
20 is Bob Hicok and Mighty Mike McGee in fishtanks as turtle prey
20 wishes he was Bob Hicok or Mighty Mike McGee in fishtanks as turtle prey,
at least, he’d go down still clever
20 smokes, a lot

Written by eris at 3:25 AM

1 Comments:

At 2:07 AM, Kyle For Obama said...: you never cease to amaze me