PROBABLY NOT FUNCTIONAL

PROBABLY NOT FUNCTIONAL
by matt burns

The difference between
Functional 
Alcoholic
And dysfunctional 
Alcoholic
Is hard to decipher

I keep on telling us
We're functional
We's sip
And we's get shit done
We're never messy
It doesn't make us useless

But let's stops kidding ourselves's
It slows us down
We're foggy the next day
Our brain is never working at it's best
And also 
Most of the time
We drink
And just stare at the computer screen
And listen to music
Like we were just doing before we wrote this poem

We pretend we're having a deep experience
But we never really do
We pretend
But we never do
Pretend
Never
Do

CHEMICAL HAPPINESS

CHEMICAL HAPPINESS

by matt burns

When I started drinking coffee

I did it because there was no more real energy

I had exhausted all natural energy

So I had no choice

But to find a source

Of
Chemical

Energy

Now it’s the same with happiness

At age 32

I’ve exhausted all real happiness

So I’ve had no choice

But to start drinking copious amounts of alcohol

Lots and lots

Of ALCOHOL

Because when real happiness has run dry

Like a dry town named HAPPY during prohibition era

And that metaphor may make no sense

You have no choice

But to find chemical energy

Because without real happiness

You need something synthetic

To keep you ALIVE

Of course, a good argument could be made…

That chemical happiness

Is fake happiness

And it’s a fake happiness that transports you

Into a

Fake

Reality…

That may be true

But I’ll take that fake reality

Because I’m not ready for total despair

Or death

I’m not ready for

Despair

Or death

So I’ll take chemical happiness

I’ll live off the chemical happiness

It’s good enough for me