Streetlight

Streetlight

Billboards haunt

Like shadows

From a dream

That's not my own

I want things I hate

Myself

For wanting

Monstrous Kaiju

Gorgeous desire

Fifty foot sirens

Blaring

Luring

Me down

To their shallow depths

Light from adorned

Doorways claws

At my skin

The promise of denial

I scuttle home

To the safety of my

Private lies

Doppelganger

I am wedded to
An endless war of
Me against
A Me Who
Is not
A man from the past
Who has my face
Who shares my self
Who defiles it

He gets drunk to send me
hang-overs
He splits up and tells me
It's over
He procrastinates
Leaving me as the ruler
Of our ruined future
He dies in every moment
His inheritance is sorrow
I accept

He is a nightmare to share a home with
Let alone a body

If I could make the time
To make a time machine
I'd give you what-for
But what for?
I'll forgive you
And give myself
time
Wasted recovering
I'll
Put my feet up with a beer
I'll

Know I'm already hated
By one I tell:
I defy you
I know the price
Of now