I\u2019ve felt mad and manic now,
For quite a while,
But in a world that does nothing but baffle me,
I can only sit back and smile,
Life feels so strange and weird,
It\u2019s a confusing time we live in,
And the maddest thing about it all,
Is it made more sense to me when I was locked in a loony bin,
Right now I feel like I\u2019m Alice,
Living in wonderland,
Constantly sipping tea with the mad hatter,
With everything around me getting out of hand,
It\u2019s like I\u2019m on a trip of acid,
Quickly going out my mind,
Maybe the world has always been crazy,
And I\u2019ve just been blind,
Everyone is running round like headless chickens,
Whilst also doped up on diazepam,
I just need some of what you\u2019re on,
Not a sniff but the whole gram,
I mean like what the actual fuck,
Am the only one who is seeing this?
Pure hatred and insanity,
That is covered up with laughter and bliss,
Is the apocalypse coming?
Has Jesus shown his face?
Is this the beginning of the end?
For the much despised human race,
Is everyone just enthusiastically ignorant?
Or has the world started to go stupid,
The people who defend us and make sense of it all,
Seem to have all vanished or have been muted,
Are we living in a fake world?
Like we\u2019re living in a real life Truman show,
We live a pauper\u2019s life,
But believe we live in a ch\u00e2teau,
I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m just getting old,
And I\u2019ve turned into a moaning old bastard,
But when I thought I had a grip on life,
There seems to be another set of rules to master,
I\u2019m too fat and I ache too much,
To keep up with the current rat race,
So I\u2019m just going to light up another cigarette,
Pour a drink and get shit faced,
In euphoric ignorance,
I\u2019ll be dazed and confused,
I\u2019m going to sit back and smile,
Whilst my mind recovers from being battered and bruised,
Soon I will be drunk,
Residing in Earths biggest nut house,
And in a few hours when the madness kicks in,
Finally, I\u2019ll be like everybody else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wrote on 18\/09\/2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019ve felt mad and manic now,For quite a while,But in a world that does nothing but baffle me,I can only sit back and smile,Life feels so strange and weird,It\u2019s a confusing time we live in,And the maddest thing about it all,Is it made more sense to me when I was locked in a loony bin,Right…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}