For Being

Life isn’t short; it’s just fucking
Exhausting. Regenerating

Intervals are genuinely
Brief and generate the feeling

Life is short, the way schoolchildren
Find recess and vacation short,

The way workers find days off short,
And the next thing you know, you think,

It’s all short since the good parts are,
But now you’ve forgotten boredom,

The beauty of nothing to do,
Which you miss since you’re so anxious

About whatever you’re missing,
Thinking life’s too short for being.