Fun Used to Make Me Happy

from The Girl From Uncanny Valley (2015) by the Allotropes

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fun used to make me happy
(and fun)
fun used to make me happy
but now
I'd be lucky with Schadenfreude instead

I'm arriving,
Arriving on the
shores of anhedonia
It's been a long swim
and I'm getting tired
of caring about that option
I'm burning through options
and I ought to be
be a lot more worried about that now

but the view is clear
from where I'm going
and I expect to be
compensated for that insight

cash might be fine
then at least I could shop
but only could spend
If you had anything left to sell me

They used to call me a fool
but fun would make me happy
and even life
used make me happy

(words and music Steve Swales (c) 2015)

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from The Girl From Uncanny Valley (2015), released July 29, 2015
words and music Steve Swales (c) 2015

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