The Things We Do

She told me she stopped drinking to avoid a hangover This, I laughed at She does a lot of things almost like idiocy but I wouldn’t dare call it that Not doing things to evade the consequence sounds so chic Like last week’s episode of desperate housewives Indeed it sounds funny but I do it all the time I stop laughing to avoid crying I stop loving to avoid hating And I stopped flying, to avoid the fall It takes too much effort to think thus every so often I follow the path before me What’s more dim-witted? Doing something that works or doing something that’s been done before I’m not certain but surely I’ll find out tomorrow When my diary is full and my last tea leaf is stuck to the bottom of the kettle Most of my life will be a quest to understand myself But here I am still inquiring Questions are for the living and answers are for the dead This is the only answer I have In this way I am educated More educated then the corporate men two blocks away Drinking star bucks to inflate their egos every morning Cancerous cells developed in their brain from the overdose of money That is arranged by their payroll And I can’t help but laugh at those battling each other on political stands For even the child staring at me from the other side of the mirror understands That the biggest battle is within ourselves It takes a day to comprehend how molecules work, to build an atom bomb But it’s taken mankind’s existence to discover how our own minds work Man has done a lot of things almost like idiocy but I wouldn’t dare call it that