it will be some time

it will be some time when I leave this mortal coil behind before they discover the sack of bones and translucent skin a putrid puddle of mixed blood and body decay and this is how I will be remembered after 65, 70...maybe 75 years of absorbing vast amounts of sideways smiles, false nods and scripted bullshit that our daily routines have become it will be some time because I will choose to die alone so those formalities are not required on a daily basis those lies will not come automatic on the rare occasions when I must endure another of my own species I am not built for small talk, chit chat or breeze shooting I am a tv with a few bad pixels a record that skips an oldie that you never quite knew the words to I must have been born a second later than the universe had planned because as normal as I once believed I was something is off just ask any other bot that has spent more than a week with me it will be some time because I think I may have gotten a larger dose of DNA that ET is adding to our OJ perhaps a test to see what would happen if they jumped the gun a bit say 200 years the neighbor called it in when she saw I hadn't left for work in a few weeks or maybe a few months gonna be hell cleaning these wooden floors

Deckard

I began writing poetry when I was a teenager and it truly saved me from a destructive path. 'Time Heals' will be on my grave stone'. I have 3 incredible kids who are the greatest gifts that God has given me. If I have advice to give to aspiring...

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