Things to Do Today
Power wash
Front bumper
Lay low
Shit happens
A burlap cloaking device?
Who in the hell
Tries to slit their wrists
With a Dremel
And why did I cut
One leg off
Of my favorite
Pair of pants?
Small fires
Are raging
All around me
Don’t sweat
The small stuff
It stops
Where you begin
Jeffrey Dahmer
Was an alcoholic too
David Burdett
7/22/2024
Using the Night
While you were away
Building yourself
A life that made sense
I was running blind
And struggling
To understand
Why God
Fed me confusion
Ignored my tears
And forced me
To have sex
With strangers
There has never
Been a time
In my 54 years
On this planet
That I have felt
Peace or trusted
In another
Human being
To not ultimately
Fuck me over
It is what it is
David Burdett
7/21/2024
Slaves and Robots
Said I
The man planked
At that 8 am
Bus stop drunk
As they inched
Their way toward
That freeway onramp
To piss their lives away
In order to battle
The absence of meaning
Christ almighty
I could have sat forever
Wasted on that bus bench
If whiskey were free
And bus passes
Like food stamps
Grew on trees
David Burdett
10/26/2022