the upswing

Today started crummy and ended crummy,
but there's always tomorrow

went "off the map" today
left the cell at home
didn't check email
just worked, learned and exercised

sometimes I wish
that i'd grown up in some 3rd world country
subsistence farming, half starving
making music on a half strung guitar
listening to the outside
through the filter of AM
or FM if I'm lucky

I know it's stupid,
and that only one who's never starved
would wish such a thing
but I beg for simplicity
to wake up each morning
to a prayer and my crops

I know it's stupid
but I still wish for it.