I, I, I
A poem of narcissistic self-absorption

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by
Mark Worden

I, I, I, I—
 	I, I, I
 Majored in self-knowledge.
 	(Sigh, sigh, sigh)

Woe, woe, woe, woe:
 	I have suffered so
Much I’m suicidal.
 	(Snurfle, woe, woe.)

No, I won’t change my habits,
 	else how should I create?
But I’ll guzzle booze and swallow pills
 	And prate, prate, prate—
About my awful love life,
 	My traumas, my stubbed toe,
My mother and my brother and my
 	Woe, woe, woe. 

Now I’m dead and gone to heaven:
 	Suicide really works.
But Christ! I am surrounded 
 	By Yahoos, Boobs, and Jerks!

I quarrelled with Saint Peter
 	And said, “It seems very odd
No one here appreciates me.”
 	He said, “Take it up with God.”

God was on Her golden throne.
 	I approached Her with awe.
I recited her my finest lines.
 	She said, “Haw, haw, haw.”
“Haw, haw, haw?” I queried,
 	Unenthusiastically.
“Oh, Lord, how can this happen
 	To me, me, me!”

So here I went and killed myself
 	To find there’s something worse:
God’s the toughest critic
 	In the whole damned universe !