how many suicides

how many suicides can i live?
those wretched birds happy and in love,
me, waddling like a duck out 'a luck.
Trip over broken glass from last night:
the point i was trying to make
from sundown to midnight ...
laying there shattered like my heart.

it was only a bottle, i remind myself,
it was only a bottle I had hoped would cure me.
nothing cures the cursed,
for that, you need a god.
Ain't no gods here, my brother, my sisters ...
and No fucking God-Damned gods here.

no, no - i'm not angry about it,
just disappointed, that's all.

it's never clean - life.
dirty underwear, sweaty ass,
something always falls out of my mouth
onto my white button up shirt
just before I walk into the interview.

We'll pay the rent, sure,
even if it costs us a lifetime.
so many memories in those houses,
in those tiny apartments, rooms -
screaming at the top of my lungs,
shaking the windows; an earthquake,
as long as the rent gets paid.
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