pressure...
Can you tell I'm battling senioritis? It is precisely one month until graduation, and counting.... Do I even need to say that the italicized words are the Lyrics to Queen and David Bowie's Under Pressure?
dum dum dum dudududum
psshhk
du dum dum dum dudududum
pressure!
feelin' like Freddie Mercury
with a side of David Bowie
dum dum dum dudududum
under pressure
200 pound weights on each shoulder
boulders
hold up!
hold what?
hold these fucking textbooks
toss them in the trash
whatever
i need reprieve!
i need release!
i need sex
but i need an A first
yet all i can focus on is the sweet imagery
a tableu:
textbooks roasting on an open fire
me and a stack of Vogues
warmed by some half-wit psychology major's
opus
but then my chest depresses
as i climb out of academic messes
and deal with twelve too many stresses
pressure!
pushing down on me,
pushing down on you!
bum ba ba hey
bum ba ba hey
daday-oh
daday-oh
i'm watching too many friends scream
LET ME OUT!
but it's the sound of my own voice
shrieking the same plea
that scares me most
as i fall into
a rabbit hole
a lecture hall
can't even climb
continue to fall
tis the season for daring to dream
for stifling screams
of desperation
elevation
of this soul's what i require
not some pretentious professor's putrid ire
oh, but my brains are on the floor
these are the days it never rains but it pours
and it's pissing on my parade and yours
maybe what we need is
lovelovelovelove...
give love give love give love
Keep coming up with love
But it's so slashed and torn
why?
why?
because love is such a silly sentiment
actually having one's heart content
And love dares you to care
For the people on the edge of the light
And love dares you to change our way
Of caring about ourselves
and who can think about self-preservation
when your brain's strung out on communication crack
this major is whack
i really can't handle these panic attacks
but pouring poetry onto pages
isn't going to further all of the stages
i need to complete these tasks so great
this is time to work not meditate
and so we fade
into another day
into another text
into another test
dum dum dum du du du dum
shhhh...
pressure.