clawing at the door | 1 |
death rarely comes | 2 |
for those who expect it | 3 |
it’s lottery on a whim | 4 |
the drawing sped | 5 |
through the shut eye of time | 6 |
by crack smoking | 7 |
whoring | 8 |
gluttony | 9 |
and sloth | 10 |
but sometimes | 11 |
people | 12 |
just don’t die | 13 |
no matter how hard | 14 |
they try | 15 |
short of flat out suicide | 16 |
some might say a guardian angel | 17 |
looks out | 18 |
or it could just be hell on earth | 19 |
what it is ain’t for me to decide | 20 |
but sometimes I wonder | 21 |
the big why-- | 22 |
I guess that is what church is for | 23 |
looking for answers | 24 |
in an old book | 25 |
that the smooth crinkly pages | 26 |
just don’t tell | 27 |
while the good | 28 |
continue | 29 |
to die young | 30 |