SEIZURE: A LULLABY

He adjusted his glasses and said,
" I'll start to live life when I turn thirty."

All I wanted to do was put a bullet in his brain
To prove him wrong.

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UNTITLED

The last time I saw him
His eyes were puffy and red--
"You drunk! You look like shit!" I said.

It never occurred to me 
that he might have been crying.