I know it wasn’t quite the right fit, looking for the lining,

haystacks of needles, they don’t say that in the fine print

like sign this, right here

right here?

yeah, right here

yeah

i’m binding, stitching together the diamond, the coal, and the ice pick,

dicing, dice that I roll when the night isn’t over, so why quit, so why this? wide eyed and holding a knife, holding an i-dea,

so many people could try, but the time isn’t governing right here

could’ve arrived, could’ve applied, could’ve been coming and going and died

could’ve been high, could’ve been low, could’ve been plateaued for years, right here

right here?

yeah, right in this fucking moment

yeah

you got multitudes and altitudes

and elevation sickness

and water that’s been thickened

like the plot you’ll keep forgetting

right here

take your minutes, your seconds, take a sip of so, what?

savor where you’re broken before you ever try to fix it up

so fucked, so polite, so full of it,

so many eyes in the lowercase of go for it

you got hope, you got momentum,

you got holes, you got oceans, you got so pent up

let go of it

SLOW DOWN,

take a minute, take it now

sipping on that bean water, knowing i don’t see it

whole life in decaf, looking for a reason

to be where my feet end, my feelings repeating

i’m swimming to deep ends that depend on ceilings

i can’t reach, and can’t see, and can’t break through

do a bit of this, a bit of that, a bitter bean soup

a bit of pacing in kitchens, and faces i’m skipping

and places i’m missing, and moments in place in a prism,

in a prison of my making, know he’s stuck at ten

know he’s dancing in a circle, forever stuck in again

forever advancing in purple, wearing ink in invisible pens,

I’m visiting them,

right here

take your minutes, your seconds, take a sip of so, what?

savor where you’re broken before you ever try to fix it up

so fucked, so polite, so full of it,

so many eyes in the lowercase of go for it

you got hope, you got momentum,

you got holes, you got oceans, you got so pent up

let go of it

SLOW DOWN,

take a minute, take it now