old and wasted men,
young yet wasted boys
stimulate their shriveled, limp organs with caffeine, alcohol and drugs.
pumping out words of authority to any who appear to listen
hoping you and life will conform to the dry, hollowness of brittle bones.
speaking loudly so they can hear themselves over the clamour and stench of other masculine diseases
while the women old and girls young, s i g h, and turn away.
the risks too high and the possibility of love
…negligible.
it seems they prefer to waste and shrink alone,
until they too, dry up and disappear
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