08: CARRY ON
Everyone
Seems to be lonely now
It's catching like a flu
I hope I don't get it from you
Maybe I've got too much time to think--
The alternative's too hard: what a drag
Watching TV isn't a job
Watch the notch between
Your eyes deepening
With all the shit you go through
Life's a series of accommodations to
Things you'd rather not do
Maybe I'll call my friend Jessica--
we're not as close as we were
but we talk (at least once)
every ten years. Flares
occasionally go up
to show you where you are...
Carry on as the wagons burn
Carry on while the widows yearn
Carry on there is still so much to learn
Sometimes I wonder if spirits age
in heaven or in hell
and if so, do they age well?
I don't envy Jesus Christ at all:
it must be a tedious job
to keep all those demands straight in your mind
Souls congregate over these lines
That don't even exist
Carry on as beliefs collide
Carry on through this deicide
Carry on till there's nowhere left to hide
Carry on so what if God paused?
Carry on through this holocaust
Carry on even though your cause be lost
