The Future

The worst thing about being naked
 And then being hit by a car
 Is that road rash is a problem for skin
 Why was I naked
 In the middle of the road at noon?
 I am glad you asked
 Imaginary other half of this conversation
 I have no idea
 Some characteristics of bipolar disorder
 Include dissociation, hallucinations
 And fugue states
 So sometimes I wake up in places I didn't go to sleep
 So
 There I am, nude
 Splayed out on a car like a slutty chicken
 Screaming about the government
 Conspiracy to take away my feet
 Not my real feet
 Just my brain feet
 I'm about six inches away from the concrete
 When I realize, in slow motion
 Like the exact opposite of a rhinoceros attack
 This is not how I imagined my life would turn out
 When I was little
 I broke both my ankles jumping off a roof
 Because I was sure a cape would enable me to fly
 My parents attributed this to my strong imagination
 Last year
 My therapist called it a delusion
 I fail to see the difference
 Also, I really can fly
 And see the future
 And make stupid people leave coffee shops with my mind
 Forty-three percent of the time
 Sometimes I see people as colors
 This guy right here wearspurple, which means he just got a promotion
 Or a blowjob
 A blow motion, if you will
 The point is, the point is
 Here is a list of things my brain has told me to do
 Join a cult
 Start a cult
 Become a cabinet maker
 Kill myself
 So, in essence, become a cabinet maker
 Break into, and then paint, other people's houses
 Have sex with literally everyone who reminds me of my mother
 Fight people who are much fightier than me
 Like the cops, so, in essence, kill myself
 I think a lot about killing myself
 Not like a point on a map but rather
 Like a glowing exit sign at a show
 That's never been quite bad enough to make me want to leave
 See, when I'm up I don't kill myself because
 Holy shit, there's so much left to do
 And when I'm down I don't kill myself
 Because then, the sadness would be over
 And the sadness is my old paint under the new
 The sadness is the house fire or the broken shoulder
 I'd still be me without it but I'd be so boring
 They keep telling me seeing things that aren't technically there
 Is called "disturbed cognitive functioning"
 I call it "having a superpower"
 Once, I pulled over on the 110 freeway
 And jumped out of my old Jeep
 Because I saw it burst into flames
 Twenty seconds before it actually burst into flames
 I knew my girlfriend and I would be together
 Because she turned bright pink the first time she saw me
 I know tomorrow is going to come
 Because I've seen it
 Sunrise is going to come
 All you have to do is wake up
 The future has been at war
 But it's coming home so soon
 The future looks like a child in a cape
 The future is the map and the treasure
 The future looks just like gravity
 Everyone is slowly drifting toward everyone else
 We are all going to be part of each other one day
 The future is a blue sky and a full tank of gas
 I saw the future
 I did
 And in it, I was alive