Life is Hard

“There's some people and I (like me) who have a really tough time getting through this life.

Excuse us (me) while we sing to the sky.”

 

We are not afraid to say it here.

Life is-

like three little birds

like smiling with your eyes

like rays of sunshine meeting quiet raindrops exploding into tiny fireworks of glitter and mist in the air

like piles of wispy stars

like summer winter

like consolation prizes consolidated

like “Good job”

like Upper Class Twit of the Year

like tests made harder because students did well

like an arctic tern landing in New Mexico

like crying milk out of mouths

like 2 at 10 and 10 at 2

like “You just don’t know”

like apps for credit cards for cash for items for who knows

like two houses, two tables

like before you know it, you’re bummed all alone at the table

like a box of ______

like everyone chooses what they’re gonna get

like cat’s cradle with an iron ring

like putting down dogs and daises

like unshaped shapes we try to name

like the day I saw the color of my skin

like 2001: A Space Odyssey by Portsmouth Sinfonia

like “Bon bon ayo”

like intolerant tolerance

like one broken ukulele string

like artificial unintelligence

like “Who knows, but that you have come to your position for such a time as this?”

like kairos and chronos

like 100% A

like 100% B

like a color-ful dog

-hard.

 

“We are broken people”