Poem: "Upend"

All my entries are like a scientist's progress notes

It seems like ages since the last time that we spoke

Trying to inspire myself with all the words I wrote

Everything's feeling like hell or the high road

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I get sick and tired of hearing all of this life advice

Acting like I went around asking for advice

You strangle me and got me to the point of vice

You remind me every day that I play too nice

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I got enough words to live by to live six lives

and even then I gotta tell myself five or six times

if I fall outta line treat me like I commit crimes

don't tell me this moment's the only one of its kind

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Cause' you waste it, you wanna fit in, free fall

Die out like America's pastime, be baseball

You talk of experience, I hear tales too tall

Pretending to be the best with no friends to call

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inspired by Drake's "Emotionless" that helped me feel like it was okay to do a quad rhyme scheme and guide me to some more word diversity rather than making it look forced.

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