Go Hang (Coz I Prefer Liver Failure)

Go Hang (Coz I Prefer Liver Failure)

A Poem by Clarence Tide

 

You drink coz you’re cool
Measuring yourself in units
 
How many before I spin?
Before I puke?
Faint?
                Die?
 
Am I HARD enough yet?
Am I REBEL enough?
RECKLESS enough?
 
If I kill myself now
At least they’ll say I lived hard
Died hard.
At least they’ll think I’m a legend
           A laugh
           A rule breaker
At least they’ll think I’m COOL
Was cool.
 
Drink to show off.
I’m not showing off
I do it because I ENJOY puking my guts out
I ENJOY losing my mind
Losing consciousness
It’s a way to RELAX
HAVE FUN
GET YOURSELF KILLED
 
This is such an over-reaction
No one DIES after a couple of drinks
No one DIES because they like to PARTY
I would NEVER make the kind of stupid decisions
OTHER people do
I’m STRONGER than that
CLEVERER than that
 
But the alcohol’s dumbing you down GENIUS
USE your head for once
 
What do you want?
The perfect little do-gooder?
The BORE?
 
Look at ME
I’M DRUNK
 
But so what?
Coz everyone else is too
And I’M just trying to FIT IN
 
I’M MY OWN PERSON
(Coz that’s not a contradiction…)
I don’t have to listen to you
You think YOU know EVERYTHING
MISS HIGH AND MIGHTY
If you’ve never TRIED it you wouldn’t understand
COULDN’T understand.
You don’t know what I’M GOING THROUGH
You don’t know what it’s LIKE
BEING ME…
 
 
So who are you to JUDGE?
I can do what I LIKE
DRINK what I like
 
 
So just GO HANG
 
(coz I prefer liver failure)

© 2009 Clarence Tide


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Clarence Tide
Clarence Tide

Cardiff, Wales



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