Real As Me

A corner has been turned A chapter has been burned A stipend has been earned — Was it by me? You can’t unearth a friend If he’s stuck in the deep end And he sure as hell cannot pretend He’s free Someday, you'll be as real as me Look in the beggars mind And here is what you’ll find A sunrise that once shined Now cold and gray In crocodile remorse, Wives file for divorce Then send their husbands through the bootcamp course, so gay Someday, they’ll all be real as me Real though I may be, I’m just a totem pole A wooden icon, disengaged From body and from soul Take your protein straight No dispensaries of hate Those confined must separate Their rooms so deep While down here in the maze, With the labyrinth of your gaze, I wander hungry as you smolder in ashtrays Then sleep Someday love, you’ll be As real as me