8.3.23

underwater

everyone i know, 
is moving up in life
incessantly bored
giving me strife
years, careers 
degrees, no fleas
i itch at my skin
and it begs me to bleed
a foot hangs off my bed 
a foot in the grave
im not getting anywhere 
by just staying safe
fish in the water 
so quick and so clean
an eel, in the darkness 
that's more like me