condominium board

to getting truly, 

utterly, unrelentingly, 

fucked. 

to the flat tires and emergency dental appointments. 

to the condominium board tickets given out by the deranged and ugly. 

to the bills that never cease, 

the ones that roll with jacked gas prices 

and the nicotine tax - 

to the brutal and damning fiscal chains,

the ones coated in the rust of a system more contorted than we can understand, surly designed to fuck you in the most horrific and secret of ways. 

to the girlfriend up your ass over something

totally undeserved,

probably somewhat deserved.

to choosing this path, the poor but true, 

the because you must, the passion, 

the back breaking, mind dementing kiss -

to walking with your soul.  

take the empires from this earth, take all they’ve given birth - 

the beautiful would still breathe.