what sets you apart

what sets you apart

so me and some people are in an apartment


we don't leave because we are paranoid


they agree to anything i suggest

it is not my beauty or youth because i never looked more tore up


but my passion they warm to


I guessed you won't believe me, so i kept the pictures

in a box


they don't like me
 and i don't like them

but we get along-
our understanding is as loathsome as the political climate


but why should i care, i'm here ain't i?

hate streams from our eyes cause no one is smart enough to stop the dreary incomprehensible sameness 
of days


  

i hold my breath for what seems like weeks
 with kings on hollywood hilltops and dirty homeless
 in basements where hill street meets that bright neon sign of jesus



we are always peeking out windows

time isn't anything to us
--lifetimes come and go
 
i have always gotten my way through them all 
and what of it?
you don't let me and that's what sets you apart