Saturday, September 6, 2025

Darrell Watson's Breakfast Jamboree

The privilege to die alone 


where the trains and the refineries poisoned everything 


I want to be alone. At one with nothing 


Curling into a ball like a little cancerous little dormouse  


Sleep it all off. forever 


in the name of some new atrocities, that I no longer find the will to fight. 


And there this lingering feeling, like, I was supposed to do something  


in some other reality I surely missed a stop on the train  


I don't know where I am anymore, and I also don’t care 


my body feels like a haunted house 


there’s nothing to offer beyond the labor of my meat or the wrath of my mind. 


And I can’t stop looking at the shitstorm  


In its insurmountable endlessness  


Where the beast never tires 


the storm that never stops 


And I’m exhausted.  


My soul hurts.   


Or is this the onset of some blood-borne cancer? 


These tendons and joints and spine are all expressing their existence to me 


and I won’t become anything of relevance  


so this all seems so scripted.  


as a predictable, fragile anger. 


And the truth is; I'm bored. 


While ‘exciting’ is a neutral term,  


the excitement of chaotic redundancy wanes 


There, in the recycler.  


As a hive of fencing semi-precious metals 


Shopping carts buzzing in and out, as disgusting as cockroaches 


Scurrying in and out of the shadowy places  


In the service of the drug.  


Beneath a sign that proudly says: “Praise the Lord.” 


As if salvation is stolen metal in exchange for dope. 


As a cathedral to depravity   


The atrocities of this faith have become vulgar  


Begging an awoken reality in the face of this 


Is this how I'm going to spend my time? My life? 


I think not.  


we must shake this intransient, financially impossible state 


And I don’t know how. 


As some migratory bird shanghaied in the mountains 


The shifting trade winds, have been favorable 


until now

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