Dark Wherever

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I feel like that but I don’t want to try dying I want to be great but it’s too hard trying I wear a mask of smiles
in solitude my optimism chokes.
But in the interim I make jokes
Unhappy here I’m happy there I’m not singularly happy because I’m losing my hair
I’m happy where?

Wherever people are not whatever expectations are not wherever questions are not wherever effort is not wherever status is not wherever masses are not
Wherever families are not wherever holidays are not wherever gas prices are not wherever flat tires are not wherever politics are not wherever wherever people are not wherever wherever wherever
Wherever the world is not whatever life is not wherever cold is not wherever memories are not wherever

friends are
Wherever drums beat
Wherever cigarettes are diversified
Wherever the weeds legal
Wherever my hatred is
Misanthrows unto a misanthrope

…Unsettling eyebrows…
Dark wherever