Why I Shit So Much (from "A Slip Of The Tongue")

oh, the delights of the world:
the booze
the women
the food.

I've eaten only junk... I've sworn,
cursed, gambled,
taken pills
and laughed and joshed and forgotten.

I think that somewhere in the
Bhagavad-Gita
it said not to give into the desires of the mouth
and I believe that the Holy Bible said
something about leading a pure and sinless
life.

well, in this life,
what can you do?
with all the gods, the demons, the angels
and the temptations
who can really cope?
some of us will search forever for divine wholeness
and others will rape
and plunder.
some of us will walk dark roads at night searching for spiritual answers
and others will be fucking and fucking and fucking
a $20 whore in Mexico.

and when we try to draw the line for our sanity
it always comes down to the same old thing:
our shit still stinks.

it has taken me a quarter of a lifetime to realize
that suffering for forgiveness
is still suffering,
that Nietzsche's madman is probably right about
God being dead,
and that we are all so terribly far away from some universal truth
and will be as we know it
as flowers and snails spring up from our graves
while all of us lie unknowing
as life can only continue on.

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