Electric Myst || Neurotic Nihilism IV. 1.3

“       King. 

‘And can you, by no drift of circumstance,

 Get from him why he puts on this confusion,

 Grating so harshly all his days of quiet

 With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?’”

    —William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act III Scene I

While not directly correlated to the text of Shakespeare’s quoted play touching on the topic of decay; the poem is about decay and in a sense the more degenerative, addictive kind. Where sloth and Envy are rather negative in overindulged amounts— though Envy does require further study as it is a misconstrued, or rather more misunderstood term which gets too often interchanged with ‘jealous’ when it has differing connotations. In that Envy it also serves as the final prelude to a full dissertation of the album Warning by Green Day, or when fully typed up and edited: Neurotic Nihilism IV.2 & IV.3.

Picking skin:

Head constricted—

Intent spin.

Surface-level:

Breathe in the smoke,

Ease in electrical myst

4 shots—

Cold and enough:

Coffee glee,

Nice coating gleam

Sitting while nails tear mesh seams

Fated, faithful, fatal—

diabolical,

maniacal,

“Let’s get physical- physical”

Imaginary atypical,

hermit-hominid-hypothetical

Lost and never want to be found:

Up, up 

and around,

“On a sentimental journey into sight and sound…”

Crash and learn,

like Icarus’ wings burned.