This Old Town

Reality is something stark and overbearing

and so full of twisting contradictions that

I am nearing the end of my rope

in trying to make any sense of this

tangled mess.

People are liars and thieves

and double-crossers

and sometimes you really can't trust the

words that come out of their mouths.

Why is it that lies come off the tongue

more easily than anything near honesty?

I am getting so tired of being

so utterly screwed over.

The system I'm swimming in

is so corrupted and backwards sometimes.

The right people are getting pummeled.

And the ones who are all wrong and rude

always manage to come out unscathed.

So goes life.

And it will always be this way,

it always has been,

and who are we kidding when we say

that life is fair,

and people work for the the good of people.

It's a cruel joke mankind plays

on itself.

But so it goes.

I'll float on and manage to stick it to the man

subtly,

because what else can I do?