Life is a goddamn ladder

If you lit a flame to your shirt

Your shoulders would burn alive with the same pain as

My impatience

From standing on this goddamn ladder

For 43 minutes

Holding a garage light from ancient whenever the fuck over my head

Only to realize

I dropped the screwdriver bit into

What might as well have been oblivion and

I can’t get it without unwrapping these wires and

That might as well require a time machine

Which I need to invent with just 3 free fingers so I can

Never have stepped foot on this rickety aluminum

Or even better

Never have crossed the jet bridge onto that plane

Or even better

Never let anyone tell me that hard work pays off because

Life is a goddamn ladder

And sometimes all you want

Is to climb back down.