i've had this toothache for 2 days, now. i'd rather be getting stabbed in the forehead.

      

 

 

    it's like that
the way it comes down like a bolt of white hot sweat spreading from the medulla to the ass     a grey burning wolf tearing the face from a legless hermit tied to a tree        it gets my face wrapped around my ribs sliding blue pictureshows etched in bloody quartz across the lace of my eyes jesus jesus   jesus!  and more of the same  throw in sweaty little buddha and an allah! in for good measure    driving across town wondering if there's a shorter way to get home    wondering if anyone will care if i plowed through the high school girls crossing against the green    it gets like that when the wave comes back   here it comes     now     boiling from eyes   and slowly a scream claws and rips its way from my throat filling the van and escaping from the windows    she comes over and knocks on the window     "hey, mister, you okay?" she asks with genuine concern   i nod yes and wave her off     only three blocks until home    until i have the pills in hand     until i knock myself out with an unhealthy dose of percocet       i thought about my daughter getting on my nerves earlier and my brother getting on my nerves and my girlfriend getting on my nerves and her dog getting on my nerves and the concerned girl and my daughter's teacher and everyone everywhere anywhere and i realized    that's a lot of nerves    they must all be entangled with the nerve under my tooth  and i settled into the lazyboy bathed in the slightly nauseous comfort of percocet and marijuana and i sang myself to sleep with a lilting chorus of "f*** all this..."

yeah
it's like that