The Institution

I sit in the corner of a dark room

No need to see because I can already assume

the walls are still decorated two to a room

with standard paintings of random-ass trees

that are selected perfectly meaningless and bland as can be

A trick to make it seem less divisive and more polite

The paint is cheaply plastered on in Institutional White

So when you look at it you immediately lose sight

of your goals and ambitions

A masterminds rendition

of a perfect hard working, no thinking product

At the entrance, thick, steel bars to keep us from escaping

The guards stand at Attention, their mouths all gaping

They watch every calorie burned and Subway sandwich eaten

And you should keep your head turned or you might be beaten

and then filed away in the shadows of a Dishonorable Discharge

As I leave I abruptly swivel around shouting "no!!!"

so loud that the guards blink,

and my heart sinks to the floor

I can barely catch the door

saving myself from being locked out evermore

Out of my one room bag of tricks

a prison cell of hell, Number 7026

So that i can later return to my cumbersome corner

and stare blankly at random-ass tree paintings,

fastened neatly on Institutional White walls

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