I love you, i’m sorry, please help me, thanks some bumper sticker wisdom while you’re walking the plank i love you, i’m sorry, please help me, thanks the illusion of protection in the face of the tank
you were a student you were a soldier you were a symbol they made you a martyr
i love you, i’m sorry, please help me, thank you when the nationalist demagogues eat the desperate & confused i love you, i’m sorry, please help me, thank you when we’re so far past civility it feels useless to argue
but love isn’t passive a trick or a tactic it’s radical action so go, let ‘em have it
when I opened my perspective from my fear of the world to the daughter I was trying to raise, with the total sum of everything asleep in my lap, it was clear i was the one in my way
you said, “life is sweet, but my brain’s got teeth.”
i love you, i’m sorry, please help me, thank you you said, “acceptance & forgiveness” I said, “nobody asked you” i love you, i’m sorry, please help me i have to drop it some time, but i hate that i have to
oh, but it changed me -
oh, how it saved me,
shaped & remade me -
oh, what it gave me!:
I was burned out on obsessing at the end of the world and the daughter I was helping to raise." with the total sum of everything awake in my lap i could hear what you were trying to say:
you said, “life is sweet,
but my brain’s got teeth.”
you said, “life is sweet,
but my brain’s got teeth.”
life is sweet,
if i let it be.
I love you, I’m sorry, please help me, thanks, etc.