Too Linear

too linear
this model of living one way
from birth to death

wish I could
loop the loop
laughing all the way around

it ain’t death I fear
but predictability
why end up where we all do?

why not say left turn, Clyde
and go straight on
till waking up yesterday morning

in another’s bed and bag of bones
starting over for a week
hell of a vacation

or best of all, stasis
no aging at all
pick a target and stay sharp

one day you go poof
one day you surprise everyone
by not dropping dead

listen
fuck immortality but fuck death too 
as automatic end result

if it’s gotta be life unto death
I’ll just take death now
thank you — at least it’s an unknown