Selfless Killers of the April Fool Armageddon
buying my own suicide
the devil on my shoulder spoiling me rotten
knowing what's best for you
april fool's day armageddon
the movie about the book that inspired the movement
april fool's day armageddon
selfishly learning to destroy the devils of our own making
and outsmarting our own fate
a date with destiny the world couldn't refuse
buy my book
sucked you in
spat you out safely
learned to do it again
replace the one thing worth replacing
new ways to celebrate the reality of our struggles to see this one day
and hold onto it as long as we can
April fool's armageddon
the world but a stage
our lives no joke, but live to make our demise an unkillable monster to laugh at
lead this way to see if you would drink
selfishly killing for uncharted territory in a dream this big
all the while waiting for the day to do away with the devil on our shoulder
of our own creation
illusory dreams
short term success
duped again for utopian ideals
selfless killers found among the slaughtered
the joke im not telling
is one of the gamble of the april fool armageddon
the joke im dreaming of peace
the running gag of several sides
one by one of different measures dumbfounded by prose
or rapture be riddled
forever incomplete
leaving the world happily deadlocked
in a state of cornering me
and doing so happily
to set them free
back to the punchline
the joke that has been told will be repeated
worked on, redone, retold and enjoyed, perhaps shared with the gods
who may curse our the perfection we are about to achieve
Copyright © Troy Jeremy Nelson | Year Posted 2010
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