The World is Assholes and the Word No

[rowens]

Rejection
takes on a whole new meaning
once you realize
everyone is an asshole anyway.

There have been lots of places
you would've liked to go
before you died.

It feels
like it should've been your birthright,
for being in this world
where such places are.

There's not a town you've been in
where someone hasn't said:
"This place is the asshole of the country."

Maybe things could have been better.
You think of that scene in Mask,
where what's-his-face has
all those places on the map

that he wanted to go
before he died.
But Cher comes in and sees him

dead in bed.
Reminds you of how the Elephant Man
decided to go to bed one night without the pillows.
Everybody was pretty much an asshole anyway.

If only
it was that easy.
Sleeping any old place without pillows.