Some Days/Other Days

Some days I wake up

And feel like a boy

Pretending to be a man


Other days I wake up

Caffeinated and celebrated

Ready for a ten year shave


Some days I wake up 

And feel like I am in the middle

Of Rorke’s drift


Other days I wake up 

And feel like John Updike’s 

Elusive umbrella man


Some days I wake up

With a bit of basorexia

But bite my tongue


Other days I wake up

As the opposite of viable 

Because of a chosen weapon.


Some days I wake up

With a pen

Ready to go