10-14-2025, 01:01 AM
Tom told me
I want my money back
I mean he was referring to what the pandemic revealed
to us
people like Tom and I
about people
he said he wanted his money back
that is poetry
I mean I remember it
so it must be
I want my money back
poetry
but look
he was talking about
the great revealing
the pandemic
as it were
to put it in a nutshell
what the pandemic revealed to us
Tom and I and our ilk is that
most people
they want to belong
more than they want to live
look
they told us that
or they acted as if
we live in a human community
and that we are all the same
a community of souls
but that was either a lie
or a mistake they made
but and because
we aren’t all the same
there are two groups
in the world
two types of thing
the ontological divide was occluded to a degree
during our lives before the pandemic
by common decency and by propriety
but perhaps
but the pandemic exposed it clearly
look let me explain it to you
why we feel cheated
we feel cheated
we want a refund
because we didn’t know
we weren't told
that there are two types of people
in this world
TYPE ‘A’ (the pandemic response compliant)
the types who desire to belong
more than they desire to live
or to love
and the types ‘TYPE ‘B’
that desire to live
and to love
more than they desire to belong
but let us be fair
for the first type (TYPE ‘A’)
belonging is life
belonging is the self
belonging
is all that they can ever know
but we didn’t know much about that
not enough about that
Tom and me
until the pandemic revealed that
catastrophic ontological divide
I mean they said never forget
they said never forget
but everybody did forget
come the pandemic
look
they forgot
because they never knew it
but Tom and I
we knew it and we believed it
and we thought everybody else did too
and you can’t blame us for that
Tom and me
we want our money back
we thought that when a snake from hell
shot into their assholes
teeth out
that they would feel it
that they would act
that they would know that it wasn’t safe
but they didn’t react
because to them belonging means everything
it is life itself
if belonging means dying to them
they will happily die
people like Tom and me (TYPE ‘B’)
we just want to live
more than we want to belong
we don’t care about belonging
we recognize ourselves
we know what we like
we like life.
I want my money back
I mean he was referring to what the pandemic revealed
to us
people like Tom and I
about people
he said he wanted his money back
that is poetry
I mean I remember it
so it must be
I want my money back
poetry
but look
he was talking about
the great revealing
the pandemic
as it were
to put it in a nutshell
what the pandemic revealed to us
Tom and I and our ilk is that
most people
they want to belong
more than they want to live
look
they told us that
or they acted as if
we live in a human community
and that we are all the same
a community of souls
but that was either a lie
or a mistake they made
but and because
we aren’t all the same
there are two groups
in the world
two types of thing
the ontological divide was occluded to a degree
during our lives before the pandemic
by common decency and by propriety
but perhaps
but the pandemic exposed it clearly
look let me explain it to you
why we feel cheated
we feel cheated
we want a refund
because we didn’t know
we weren't told
that there are two types of people
in this world
TYPE ‘A’ (the pandemic response compliant)
the types who desire to belong
more than they desire to live
or to love
and the types ‘TYPE ‘B’
that desire to live
and to love
more than they desire to belong
but let us be fair
for the first type (TYPE ‘A’)
belonging is life
belonging is the self
belonging
is all that they can ever know
but we didn’t know much about that
not enough about that
Tom and me
until the pandemic revealed that
catastrophic ontological divide
I mean they said never forget
they said never forget
but everybody did forget
come the pandemic
look
they forgot
because they never knew it
but Tom and I
we knew it and we believed it
and we thought everybody else did too
and you can’t blame us for that
Tom and me
we want our money back
we thought that when a snake from hell
shot into their assholes
teeth out
that they would feel it
that they would act
that they would know that it wasn’t safe
but they didn’t react
because to them belonging means everything
it is life itself
if belonging means dying to them
they will happily die
people like Tom and me (TYPE ‘B’)
we just want to live
more than we want to belong
we don’t care about belonging
we recognize ourselves
we know what we like
we like life.