Joke.

Everything
in the pursuit
of more.

It's a fucking joke,
man:
men, women,
and babies.

200,000 years.
6.8 million years;
4.5 billion;
13.7 billion.
It's got to be a fucking joke.

It's all
in the hands
of some
incompetent maker
that
never existed.

You gotta 
laugh it off:
it is
a very beautiful joke,
after all

(or maybe
that's just
Nick Drake in my ear).

This is
the only time
we'll ever ride this joke,
and it sure is
fucked-up
(but it's beautiful as hell).

It's funny
how
the only thing I want
in this life
is the only thing
my body
tells me I really need

(no, wait:
it isn't).