We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes

We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti

Are you becoming what you've always hated?

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.

The secret is writing down one simple line after another.

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.