How about you just pay the dentist first?
The minutia of life…
The laundry…
The bills…
That hide in the mail.
And when going to pay them
The links don’t work
You have to pay with a check
“Do you have cash?”
they say.
What’s cash?
No one has cash anymore
“Well, that’s the only way you can pay
That’s just the way it is,”
they say.
What is this whole big scam
To make us think we didn’t get an education
Because the buttons don’t work
The link is broke
The ticket you need to pay
It hasn’t come in yet
No, you can’t pay online
This one’s the kind
You can only pay in court
(Maybe they hope we’ll forget
when it’s “processing” in the mail
Well that really works on me
I think.)
Wait, snail mail is still a thing?
They’re trying to trick me again
Must be
Checks
Cash
Links
Pay by phone
What’s even HAPPENING?
They are out to get us
With hoops
Constantly
To jump through
Trapping us
Terrifying us
Telling us
That the secrets of life
Lie in being successful at
Such as these
Where’s the joie de vivre?!
Where’s the stimulant that will get me through?
Why can’t we all be like those routine rats
That just feel peace
Keeping up the crazed pace
Just doin’ their thing
Maintaining the universe
Spinning on through
Feeling contentment
Just plodding through
Why must we insist upon
Demand
Putting our feet in the sand
For something truly grand
Something dazzling
Pretty
Beautiful even
Life needing to be art
Needing to express something
Beyond this land
Truly how can we stand
Whatever this is?!
High school
Teaches you
To play the game
College
Shows you
How to make the roped-up
Maze
You graduate envying
The unschooled
Because they learned some
Common sense
Working and figuring out the world
You learn all manner of things
Really spending time
Spinning in the mind
Going on spiritual endeavors
Getting really clever
With theology
Your heart grows
Straining with the people
It is torn apart
Figuring out how to go about living
When you are reborn
You have to unlearn
All of it.
Undo
Untie
Loosen your grip
Everything they taught you growing up
Strip it–
You learn to be a child again
You really simplify
You enter the kingdom
You hear the King of Kings
And He says,
“Just pay the dentist already.”
