Outside this world

Outside this world

I

Outside this world of plastic joy

silicon love, sacred ATM's and pills for tears,

fast food, fast births, fast courts,

dwells the self

starving for some real pain.


II


Outside this world

I have subdued all my own possibilities of pain,

which still look for numbness.


Beyond the self,

a discontinuous feeling of fitting in

and a continuous one of solitude.


It's this shallow uncertainty of hope,

in the severe unwillingness to surrender

to a massive stupor.