Why not try to empathize
or just to live a day of life?

There are only so many ways
that I can masturbate
in a single day
I've got twelve hours of anime
is it okay to waste
New Year's Day?
Should I be composing?
Improving? Exposing?
or generally avoiding wasting away
before I'm thirty six
without romance or tricks to make
me feel sane?

I would die for one goodbye
which made me feel less dignified,
for you to see my choice in life,
to have the chance to just drop by

The thing about irony
is that it makes you
believe you're fine
To watch and critique
while the people get chic
for their pop culture shrines
But what they don't tell you
when you're seventeen
and your friends say "Hey, no, fuck the man! They're so weak!"
is that life is too short to be
trying to sneak in your
interests - go love what you love, be a geek!
Or try to be cool in the
crowd of your friends -
approval's not everything but boy it helps
When you're sitting alone
on your couch on your phone
checking twitter to see if your friends think you're funny
and you send out a cry for
help through a tweet,
a haiku about something that you think is neat
which is veiled in your loneliness -
am I the only?ness,
should I be sitting at home on the phone?liness,
only to see that your
effort has gained you
one single like
from a friend who can see when you're
down off your feet and says
it'll be fine

Why not try to empathize,
or just to live a day of life
without trying to analyze
why you're not feeling satisfied?