A Self Made Man

By daiglepoems

I get my thrills and chills
where many have found death.
Unidentified pills
with liquor on my breath.

You watch with breath abated
as I tackle the untried.
Premeditated accidental suicide.

You label me as "crazy".
Maybe stupid.
Never nuts,
but demarcation's hazy
when you haven't got the guts. 

I crave excitement.
Adventure.
A short across high wires.
A short term fix will never cure
my terminal desires.

When unthinkable's the norm
the un-do-able gets done.
The unknowable takes form.
Makes a man like me shun

conventional authorities
with all their can's and cant's.
Shivering sororities
of weak kneed sycophants

seeking shelter in a keep.
I'm a little more complex.
Little Bo Peep.
Tyrannosaurus Rex.

So-called safety just encumbers,
inhibiting the view.
Try to scare me with some numbers,
I just divide by two.

You won't just means I will.
Say you can't, I say I can.
Build a simple minded shill,
I'll build a self-made man.

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Copyright 2012 daiglepoems
Published on Sunday, April 8, 2012.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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