🪷 Runaway Train ("Life can be painful, shocking, and cruel")

a poem for inner children everywhere

Life can be painful, shocking, and cruel.

I know that you want it to follow some rule,

like reward and punishment, so it feels sane—

but you can sit by me on our runaway train.

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the sunset on Monday evening (sunsets can be a whole different kind of shocking!)

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In the notebook

(I wrote this late last night and revised it today.)

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