Josh Marks; 07.2003
submission...

Gettin' in gettin' out and gettin' on...

When there's something on my mind I find
that all the words I've ever heard come down like a bird
in perfect order, naturally factual by unwavering confidence
in my experience with life
and love and hurt and hate
and all the stupid reasons that made me wait -

for what? Another line up sign up
make an application
take a look at this distraction -

now you need treatment,
therapy pills that kill - oops I mean control
your instincts but me thinks

that misery loves company and
psychiatry is suffering to the power of infinity -

talk about a black spot on your conscience,
knowing that you're fucking with divinity.
I mean I guess it'd be okay, everybody going one way
just for today,
but it isn't, it's a deliberate attempt to create
a habbit for the rabbit
in my mind and tell me they've found everything I'll ever find.

Beware of people with good intentions to comfort you in misery
and misery and misery is miserable but now you're in company
and that's comfortable and now those people with good intentions I mentioned are gonna comfort me

and say that they see me in their company for eternity
and there's no such thing as infinity
and liberty just isn't necessary anymore now that we have
everything there's nothing I can bring

except a question, suggestion
to myself made by a savant they put through electrotherapy...

I mean I wanted to know but to know was to go
because I sure as shit didn't want the fucking shocks
by some sicko twisted good intentioned doc

so all I said to this dude was, "Hey! How do I get out of here?"
He made it really clear - "Use your brain".

And that was that, he was right
I got my head back in the game and played by their rules -
even the old school seems to be governed by a universal rule regarding conflict -
inflict a mirror image of the source and divorce
the team of victims with their symptoms -

I haven't got any so I want a second opinion from another psychiatrist. -

"What? I'm doing so much better now? - What, I can go tomorrow? - Why not today? Today?"

Really, wasn't that just a little too easy?