“Welcome to your life”
Get up
Get dressed
Take your pills
And optional blue can
To defrag your brain
Put on that cloak
greyer than the ash
On your cigarette

Now you’re stumbling off
Past the refuge of your room
To the cold, public
Bathroom
Lights fluorescent
Brushing those teeth
From dirty to just yellow
Spit it out
Rinse your face
Look up
To the sticker-studded mirror
Hair out of your face
Glimpse the real me

See you tomorrow
I smile back at you
See you again tomorrow
Teeth biting on my tongue

Here you are
Back again
Despite your best efforts
You’re in that same old routine
Another day
Another week
Another month
Those nasty zits
And fine-lined wrinkles
Are all that ever change
Except that shuffled playlist
Of contaminated tools

Now you’re stumbling back again
Bristles scrubbing harder
Toothpaste turning pink bubblegum
You spit
Splash that cold water
In your face
Bloated, red
Looking up
To that smudged mirror
Tangled hair too frizzy
To simply move away
Still you force another look

See you tomorrow
I smile back at you
See you again tomorrow
Teeth biting on my tongue

They ask you
Why you do this
Why you choose this
But all you can think
Is how they’re all too blind to see
That the second best option
Be it blood, smoke or poison
Tastes better
Than these skeletal days

See you tomorrow
I smile back at you
See you again tomorrow
Teeth biting on my tongue

“Welcome to your life”
Your eyes now bleary
Teeth not dirty, just stained
Spit it out
Drink it up
Flick the ash
See you again tomorrow