I'LL

If I wake before I die I'll never sleep again

Eventually I'll voluntarily sign death's oath

but between now and then:

I'll tattoo a poisonous snake on my back

I'll scream unsufferingly when I get mad

I'll ride a Harley on a highway wet with rain

and never wear anything but tight black denim.

I'll spend 40 days in a desert and not let God win

I'll get a scar on my face from a back alley fight

I'll use a night riding after the moon

and I'll force stares when I walk in a room.

I'll go where death learned to hate and reside

I'll shave off my hair and paint my skull red

I'll place pattern scarification on my neck and my wrists

and I won't speak for a week except to laugh and to hiss.

I'll bungee jump on a rope that's too long

I'll crush yellow butterflies in my palm

I'll climb up a mountain and slip on a moss covered rock'

and I'll beat the ---- out of a 6' 250 lb. jock.

I'll burn all my books and bury their ashes in the west muddy ground

I learn more than a sane person should know

I'll no longer need to eat or breathe

and I'll survive on thick freedom and the sweat of the sea.

When I finally wither I'll rot on the ground where I lie

And to the vultures I'll donate every one of my organs.

then I'll voluntarily Die.