Rules Are Wet Cotton Candy

Rules Are Wet Cotton Candy  

a fair fighter’s a liar 
a man as fake as a nightmare 
so what about me 
I’m realer than concrete 
made of enough steel 
to build a penitentiary 
but I won’t  
I don’t rip endings out of books
when the TV screen screams at me 
breaking news all caps
defeat coming soon
it doesn’t even sound like the truth  
some folks see an apocalypse always 
meanwhile I’ll get through today
and when I look at the horizon 
I watch this universe expand

hot soup and a free bag of rice

Medical. Psychological. Nonsensical.