words

i am not shel silverstein,
i’m just some asshole with a pen.

i drink and i judge,
those are my two things;
drinking, and judging.

the order is not entirely necessary
but the former typically precludes the latter.

i stand just slightly outside of everything
and attempt to capture the whirring maelstrom
of color and sound, but it moves too fast
for just some asshole with a pen to keep up.

i am the vanguard satellite
keeping watch over cosmic trash.

i was born of liquid and fire
and i will perish in a cloud of smoke,
there then not, simple, succinct, gone.

-S.C. Martinez