Growing up is
choosing what to want
proving Schopenhauer wrong
Trading youth, beauty, agility of mind
for irresistible fingernails
and immovable bowels
Murder your dreams
for the retirement
of your dreams
Specializing
ever smaller parts of life
for the whole
Routine boring
pointless inevitable
slow slide into death
Life only seeks to be,
squirming on that hook
religious fantasies etherize
Hate yourself your life
rage
a rotten deal
Vile motives boil
rationality scabrous
swelling sac of pus sews shut
Giving up all
for mortgaged marriages
betting on stability improbable
Reinventing yourselves
new wrappers
same saccharine souls
