katherine's beautiful blues in poetry

despite all their best efforts
with the hot steel they can hurl
we’ll convince ourselves that
there’s a secret savage world
for shattered boys
for shadow girls
where we’ll dance and screw and write
we’ll play and draw and sleep and sing
like Kitty Pride, we’ll just say
that we’re going through some things
we’ll trade alternate pasts
for a number of uncertain future days
but they’ll say like Kitty how
we’re just going through a phase
so we’ll walk through walls
until we find the sunshine’s rays
but they’ll say that we’re
just going through a phase
you can’t play it safe forever
this meat was designed to die
just like Kitty Pride
we’re going through a phase
of half-remembered futures past and
an uncertain count of days
so dance and screw and write it anyways