A Discourse on Apathy in three parts

Prologue
"Poets are always taking the weather
so personally, they're always sticking their
emotions in things that have no emotion"
-Teddy by J.D. Salinger

Part I

When I met you
in the high court of apathy
you were much more quiet
than me, and it nearly
drove me mad with envy.

What is the
sound of one
hand clapping?
I was awake,
you were napping.

You were everything
I aspired to be,
idiot savant
laughing boy,
with a smile on
your face

Your milk white eyes
sucked the life straight out
of me, when you finished
I became worthless, just
another dead battery.

You are the
sound of one
hand clapping.
I was awake,
you were napping.

Interlude
"You know that apple Adam ate in the Garden of Eden,
...You know what was in that apple?
Logic and all that intellectual stuff...
this is my point-what you have to do
is vomit it up if you want to
see things as they really are."
-Teddy by J.D. Salinger

Part II
I've made up my mind
and now I'm online,
trying to find
out how to perform
an at home lobotomy.

(When I was in middle
school I refused to stand
during the pledge of
allegiance every morning
because it reminded me of
a video of a Fascist rally,
where everyone was speaking
with only one voice .)


Interlude
"If Sven dreamed last night that his dog died, he'd
have a very, very bad night's sleep, because he's very
fond of that dog. But when he woke up in the morning,
everything would be alright...The point is that if his dog
really died, it would be exactly the same thing. Only, he
wouldn't know it. I mean he wouldn't wake up till he died
himself"
-Teddy by J.D. Salinger

Part III
I hope that when
the world does end
that it is not loud
and chaotic.
No, I hope that when
the world ends
it will be just like when
my neighbor David died
in his sleep, some years ago.
When the new neighbors
moved in no one said much of
anything at all.

no one said much of anything at all

Epilogue
"Life is a gift horse in my opinion"
-Teddy by J.D. Salinger