hamster balls for people

natalie texts me tonight and asks if i'm dead, d-bag

and i'm like no i've been OK just hanging

in the recesses of my head

and when i say i’ve been hanging in the recesses

of my head,   TRUST  that i do not think

i’m bob dylan or something

the girl i live with has this hamster named sug

as in sugar  as in   pour a little on me,

and he runs around the living room

in a hamster ball double his size 

she says you can buy hamster balls for people

and go running in the hills,

and i'm like that's dumb

what if you just go rolling off the side ?

i say things out loud sometimes

that sound dumb even to me

i turn around and knock myself

into the street like SO WHAT  and  what now, punk??

people are people too you know

people are people too,

and there's love in the time of war in the time of love

these words have big kid teeth

they hide out in your closet at night 

and you really should try to avoid them

like cannonballs or hand grenades

and if you find any let's build a treehouse         

1 - store them there

2 - hunker down

3 - wait for winter


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