Modern Life

Education goals

Work hard on a four year degree
Research a variety of topics/complete a project, impress your adviser
Complete an undergrad thesis
Enter into a post doctoral program
Research a topic/complete a project, impress your adviser
Complete a post-doctoral thesis
So when you're finally done volunteering at your internship
You'll be ready for an entry level position at a part time job

Recipe for the perfect modern life

Each morning begins a shower, shave and shit

Clothes piled by the bed constructs an outfit

A quick perusal of the phone, computer, or television as time with permit

Followed by a cigarette and coffee

Then breakfast, gas station food or its home equivalent

A lone bacon egg and cheese sandwich sits in a case, lacking in appeal

In addition, a high caloric or sugar filled snack accompanies this fine meal

Accented by a cigarette and coffee

Work has arrived, and it's time for Steve to earn his humanity

Through various articulations and moving, things arrive at convenient locations

The disbursement of appropriate coinage, product and gasoline part of his vocation

Partitioned by a cigarette and coffee

Finally home, the night revolves around television and dinner

The meal microwavable, simple to construct, and in the vicinity

Television shows include news twitter polls, reality game shows, and alien divinity

Topped with a cigarette and coffee

Repeat until dead

An evening out

How quickly that fickle liquid

Turns the calm, callous and insipid

To lewd and loquacious

Violent drones shift sullied minds

Somber turned chaotic

Now cruel and capricious

Refuse flowed to aggradation

Folly followed aggravation

Until eventual guttural breaching

Finally, in slow muddled tones

The inebriate crawl quietly home

To roam another evening

Stumbling reflection

Am I Hasdrubal, Hercules, or Hericlitus?

Whom to ask?

Sisyphus or Atlas?

What purpose the task?

That my fate was stitched within time

Fabric woven cruel and unkind

Still heel cut, naked, wandering blind

Crossed the Pyrenees

Five fingers following the Pleiades

Returned home, Helena’s favor fought for, now frivolously flown

Displaced, house torn, voyage done

What small victory had Perseus won?

A tinder profile

Beer, television,

video games, hanging out,

then sex and hiking

Dinner out with you

I moved through avenues to sit were I eat

The alley will function

The hors d'oeuvre, a collection of localities

The meal Salmon, onion, and garlic

Its aroma, matches the decor, money not well spent

Some lessons hurt

The construction of this plate a hard pill to swallow

The meal, designed not to fit your pallet

Each word a knot in your chest

To leave a sore taste in your throat

The recitation of previous bile would be too kind

Still in this place I am awash

A small fish in a large pond

I drowned in its depth

For you, I leave it's crumbs

A puddle would suffice

To flounder, a moral lesson

A chortle and a light wave ends the evening

To tip the waiter, necessary

Pull out my chair

And return home

I simply have better things to do

By some peculiar chance, you follow

The end of the night

Violently, emotions build tension massed

Walls collapse quickly, intercourse commences

While one reminisces on partners past

The other engages with the nights expenses

Slowly, they caress and their stomachs whine

And then, as love birds descend from heaven

They need more four twenty to sixty nine

Then get half off at seven eleven

One, lacking hunger, concocts an excuse

The other partner an exit in haste

To prolong pointless, to impede no use

To do so convenient, but in poor taste

Our player buys snacks and prophylactics

To fuel and plan for the next night’s tactics