Dedication

This is for all

Who have walked out

On their own lives

And told God

To go fuck himself

This one's for the nobodies

Who were born

Into nothing and know it

This is a love letter

To the ugly girls

With glasses and terminal acne

This is a prayer

For the soul of the fat man

Who will never get laid for love

A dedication

To the trailer park shit for brains

Who are the butt of chickenshit jokes

To the pillheads:

Long live the numbskull!

This is in recognition

To the man

Who cannot stop crying

Yet refuses

To pull the trigger

A dedication

To the unnoticed

The simpleminded

Kind and generous

A call to contemplation-

Recall the years

Before you were destroyed

How you smiled

And for what?

David Burdett

3/24/21