WASH SOME WATER AND BURN SOME FIRE

fairy lites (moving photo by TLH)

 from: https://newsletter.freewillastrology.com/p/poetry-interlude

Exaggerate our flaws till they turn into virtues
Pretend our wounds are exotic tattoos
Refuse the gifts that infringe on our freedom
Shun sacred places that fill us with boredom

Keep in mind it's bad luck to be superstitious
The official story is always fictitious
Pump up our karma with idiot laughter
The promised land's here, not in some hereafter

	We are searching for the answers
	so we can destroy them
	and dream up better questions

Use our third eyes to watch TV
Sing anarchist lullabies to lesbian trees
Think with our hearts and feel with our heads
Spit a mouthful of beer as far as we can

Kick our own asses and wash our own brains
Make fun of our fears and trick our own pain
Play games with no rules, save our own lives
Prick our own dogmas and be our own wives

	We are searching for excuses
	so we can destroy them
	and dream up better motives

Plunge butcher knives into images of guns
Forgive ourselves for all our mistakes except one
Commit funny crimes that don't break any laws
Shock ourselves with how beautiful we are.

Tell jokes to clowns and cook feasts for chefs
Sing songs to the birds, and kill our own deaths
Mangle our anger, transform it to pleasure
Change our names daily, steal our own treasure

	We are searching for the reasons
	so we can destroy them
	and dream up better mysteries

Play jokes on our nightmares, delight in wild beauty
Turn tragic to magic and make bliss our duty.
We're so far beyond lazy we labor like gods.
We're lucidly crazy—in fact, that's our job.

	Go wash some water
	Mock your own hypocrisy

	Go burn some fire
	Brag about your perplexity

	Go wash some water
	Advertise your secrecy

	Go burn some fire
	Overthrow reality