Do you really want to live forever?
—Alphaville, Forever Young
I’ve always found it
odd
that immorality
and immortality
are very nearly
the same.
I think a preacher
once said
the difference is
the cross of
Christ.
Apparently
you can’t be both—
it’s either
have the time
of your fragile life
or be penitent
and pouting ,
your eyes on the
tantalizing
prize—
of blessѐd, eternal
bliss, denying yourself
of the sex you might
have had, outside your
loveless marriage,
of all the carousals
you missed out
on,
not the horses
forever spinning ,
that lift you up and down,
that’s another
bemusing word:
the carousel
you took your son and
daughter on,
in the days before
you lost them
to gin and fentanyl,
when you lap-danced
on the fellow from
Children’s Aid,
quoting his anomalous
Messiah
who had cited the
Holy Scripture—
let us eat, drink, and be merry,
for tomorrow we
fucking die.
Andreas Gripp
August 8, 2024
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