what is the beaten path?
You know the phrase, i know you do...
OFF THE BEATEN PATH
and what is that, exactly?
If i'm on it
(or off it)
then where am i?
Have i become somehow unbeaten,
unsullied and unbowed?
too proud to scream
and too alive to die?
Or have i somehow strayed
into an even more hellish realm
beset on all sides by
cancerous, malignant entities
unnamed, and without faces,
a sphere infused with
different drummers
pounding out tattoos of rhythmic
madness
infused and rife with poisons,
blank imponderable quandries
given sense and sensibility
through cigarette wisdom?
Nicotine nirvana.
FTW.