The Unsuccessful Suicide of a Lovestruck Teenager

A poem from my “Nothing but Nonsense” period (September, 1997 – March, 1998).

Tell me
what day this is.
I've been sleeping for too long.
The wrinkles in my pants won't come out.
The bad taste in my mouth reminds 
me of her.
And, this hair surely is my doom.

Five hundred years of sleep,
I could have sword I was dead.
But, someone held on to hope.
Too bad I don't care enought to
learn their name.

All I can think about is 
brushing my teeth.
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