I know how it feels, baby

I know how it feels, baby,

I’ve been there, watched the madness and drank
the blues like wine from a green bottle with
a fancy label,

I’ve watched the blood drip drip drip from my
soul and had no care to stitch the wound or
stop the pain, just accepting the shit, bleeding
out like medieval doctors trying to release the
toxic demons of malevolence,

I’ve betrayed and lied and stole the meaning of
love and perverted it to whips and chains and sex
with a slap, I’ve taken money from my five year old
to buy acid and fry—and I killed the man my wife
married,

I know how it feels, baby,

in the rain, going home from a grocery trip, I
paid a junkie ten bucks for a blowjob—then cooked
dinner for my family and watched Dumbo with my
daughters,

yes, I know how it feels, baby—it feels like shit,

and it never changes.

J. Masuda © 2005

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Bravo, mf.