Wanton the kitten, Sober the cat.

It could.
Have been better in all ways.
It could have been
fuller, final and ferocious.

Not so much try, not so much dry.

How do you
Fit the expectations raining on
Good wishes pouring in that you don't need
Or do, only because they help a part of you..

But not you.
Couldn't have been a farther you.

May there be no conversations.
May there be schizophrenia.
May youth be an illusion we once lived.
May life take a course that you'd never pay for.

Double life.
Advisable, suggested and exemplified.

Being sold for cheap.
Being bold for neat.

Lead two lives.
Because they want you that way.
Morality maybe questionable, but it's frying in the fray.

The good heart, the good word, the good man wins.
He gets one less beer, and drives the party home.