We take masturbation lessons!
We flap and flail and
Get sent back to third grade.
What a disgrace.
“The system failed you.”
Or: the fact that there was a system.
For it all runs afoul.
The fact was, there was a system
For ever and all.
I like to smile and joke
To avoid a tantrum.
I smile, I joke,
I like to stomp, to screech.
You can relax your muscles in sleep,
Or you can drain them.
Flex and scream,
Pinch your eyes, clench your teeth.
And my mind is plainly blank.
The wrung-out feeling.
I sink into the floor, and numb is the pace.
As far as numbing goes,
I finish first place.
