FIGHTING FOR YOURSELF by Suzy Devere

I'm finished cleaning dog bites
from angry mutt mouths
and rabid pedigrees

Done cleaning the dishes left
by contrary-just-to-be-contrary
shit heads and wasters

It's enough to watch out for myself
but this looking out for others is too much
you don't understand?
you don't get it?
you didn't go to school?
didn't read that classic?
didn't study French?

it isn't about elitism anymore
it's about you being lazy
so I'm leaving you behind.

From now on you can
fight your own battle for the losers
and the land of lost causes

eventually you'll realize you're only
fighting for yourself.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

intense !!

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