Young and have time
which can be a lie
at 26,
year younger than
Hendrix, Joplin
and Morrison
at their deaths
year older than
Keats at his death
Time is a trip
if you waste it
you lose it
It really is
as simple as that
It’s just a fucking shame
that a guy like me
never understands it
until it’s too late
by the time
I get it
I’ll, no doubt, be
dead and buried
a corpse rotting away
like the once highly
heralded, alleged potential