when it first happened he heard laughing the words trapped in the absurd action turned as curd does ask him air sour shared in a shower of stares the power to dare a coward to devour a hare wearing a sheeps skin he peeks in and sees the company that keeps him blunted on the hunt they seek weak men running on the train for the hundreds and change with money to claim lets see them take it from me again on the weak end say you will ill believe you can help me survive my excuses say i can and remind me that im still a man a man a man with choices with his brim slanted his slim standing grinning within handed his jim to the kid at the window implanted sin branded his kin a lantern as dim as the answers we spin on cnn what are we here for call him a friend when it calls you again the drawls we defend falling to the floor on our men the porn or the pen writing on the walls we suspend we tell ourselves well never do it again on the weak end say you will ill believe you can help me survive my excuses say i can and remind me that im still a man a man a man with choices now i dont know whats more useless the truth when its truth less the youths only enemy wasted energy and excuses always with somebody to blame in a lottery sorry you re the only body to claim now there the proof is now tell me where the roof is ill tare a hole in it before i ever leave my true friends and dont even question me on family the weak end cant handle me