Be the Nose - Poetry Slam - Comedy

It's time for a change
of my frame of mind
to a range
i've never climbed-
one of
real fast
healin'.

There ain't time
for all this self-absorbed shit.
The world is suffering
everyone's drowning in it.
We can try to enlighten
but it mightn't be timely
and then they're all still lost
in a sea
of misery.

Comedy is precious,
laughter, it is needed.
I got hurt and yes it bleeded.
Set my own cares behind now.
Be of service.
Don't be nervous.
Steppin' up to the plate
getting over that bleedin'

Nose.
Cause i pierced it, and
fierce, it hurt,
was going fine by week three,
then damn,
unmindfully,
I rubbed it,
accidentally.

Broke the cheap stud,
the blood flowed like rain.
Took it out of my nose
so it wouldn't debrain me
while I slept,
but then
in the mornin'
wouldn't go back in
couldn't force it.

Had to divorce it.

That hole don't take plugs no more.

Can't heal a broken heart for years
but the nose, it ain't like that
Too fast
the skin grows back.

So here's some advice
when your heart's t'ween your toes:

Be the nose.