Screaming is Free
Screaming is free you should try it some time
I've been a consultant since the long age of five
Schooled in Diogenes I'm not so artful to be a cynic
But I'm stealthily committed as a cautious romantic
Labouring under the pretense of amateur wisdom
Byron's stealth's a placebo and I'm really a Novice
Who's been committed to the specter of being human
Miscategorised in a genus that would disturb poor Lepidus
Always caught in a kaleidoscope of my own imagination
Ballooning to horizons that escape from realism
Novels, Rock & Roll and Sci-Fi, are my obsessions
Finding solace in the refuge of a hermits born oasis
Cause I've Been kicked in the heart and pushed on the wall
There's no shoving me down to make me crawl
Thus I have to evict the tension out from my lungs
Or I'm going to go mental and pull a Columbine
Meat cleaving crooks who ejected my teen spirit
Down into a bottle of a Nietzschean abyss
Sorry to cause panic if my intentions seem bias
But without a good direction I'm nomadic zealot
Because I'm just a boy who's trapped in a meat suit
Compelled to spend the rest of his life as a deaf mute
Staring solemnly into the stars of infinite longing
Pronged to the hiccups of existential confusion
So although my behaviour is entirely repugnant
I am most unlikely to be at all apologetic
I've played by the rules, and look like a fool
Open to antipathy, scorn and common abuse
If you think your goanna make me your village idiot
Don't under estimate my ability to formulate a sentence
I've read Marlow and Webster, and a little Shakespeare
Comprehend the basics of science and deception
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poem by Kevin Patrick
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