Family

Blood is thicker than water

He said

Family more loyal than friends

they'll always be around

fuck!...that’s it,

they'll always be around

you can't get fucking rid of them

they are like skin

a skin that holds you in

Like words in a verse

and that's the blessing

and that’s the curse

the curse of

the familiar

the familial

the family

the familiar family

the only one you will know

or at least have to be in

figure out, survive

get out, the other side

there

like furniture

annoying furniture

people furniture

furniture with feelings

and expectations

and moulds

and manipulation

and all those other gifts

we use to make the world

the way we wish it to be

parents wanting children

to be more like their parents

children wanting parents

to be more like children

everyone wanting something

from someone

other than what they

most naturally are

six narcissists in a house

…

sounds like the start of a joke

it kind of was

but not a funny one

not funny at all

rarely funny, or fun

mostly

awkward, at best

frustrating...infuriating

everyone clambering

to meet their needs

or deny their needs

finding voices, burying voices

both choices

as poisonous as the other

tears for lives unlived

tears for choices not made

tears for this

this mess, this shit

angry for this

this, the fire

the fire in which we are forged

the furnace

where only alchemy

can riddle us out

of the bad joke

wiggle us out

beyond the hedge

beyond the confines

beyond the pale

into

this

the

bleak

barren

plains

of

solitary

savage

wildness

outside

of

this

fucking

crazy

zoo

they

call

calamity

…

sorry

I

meant

family