Hooky

from The Virus by Jesse Jett

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Everyday life just feels like there’s no time.
Wake up, and then you blink: it’s last night.
And I won’t lie, I think this is our new life.
And I don’t mind.

(Everyday life just)
Happens in between the battle scenes to keep your mind

(Wake up, and then you)
Come around the bend to see the end’s another starting line

(And I won’t lie)
I’ve been playing hooky from the truth a long time
And I don’t mind.

Life is but a dream until the dream is just your life.
Everything is blurry in between the visquine and set pieces on a vacant soundstage where there once played the day-to-day monotony and minutiae of a different time.

A far cry from a tall glass meant for wine full of cheap gin over Patsy Cline.

But that’s a story for another night.
Tonight I wanna disconnect and feel the full effect of being someone only stressed about a Turnip Price.

Look outside, read one headline, eat, drink, sleep, internalize.

Maybe sprout a tumor with the stress that I suppressed when I hung up that sign that said ‘Only Good Vibes’

Like a dog in a fire thinking “This Is Fine”

Hoping someone’s thinking for me,
Cause I can’t decide.

Who could blame Mother Nature
Fantasizing our infanticide?

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from The Virus, released May 30, 2020

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