Nature the Comedian (March 2021)
The commentary:
It seems as if a lot of my ideas this past year were thrown together at red lights or in my spare minutes before work, sitting in my car.
So much of my lyrical work has focused on larger questions … why are we here? Who are we, really? Do we do what we do as the result of some inner ethical compass, or is it societal programming?
But because there all these other things floating around in the air, these odd tangents work their way in. This one ends by asking if our lifespan is what it is largely because of heredity.
The words:
When you have lived
In half-assed service
The heavy hand of nature
Supposed hard-wired
Purpose
When you have lived
For the performance
And the time bomb inside
Why cut the wire
While it’s dormant?
Does this feel like a life?
What’s it to feel like?
To start making sense we must
Decide if this fence should be
Mended
Or should there be a fence at all?
When you have lived
You’ve learned
Of the power of laughing
Even when the joke
Is killing you
Even when the joke
Is killing you
