Just An Ordinary Joe

I’m just an average man

I do not have a tan

I wake up every morning

And put my coat and glasses on

I venture forth into the world

A world of my own creation follows me

Life is so much more

Inside my head

For there I can slay dragons and shit

I get on a bus and go to work

Meanwhile I kiss the princess

I sit at my workstation

Dying for a cigarette

Slowly bit by bit

My story unfolds

Unread and unmolested by you

The other folk

I have not seen your world yet

A world of fancy tea parties

And bowler hat attendances to operas

In my head, I am free

Despite my routine life I am someone

Outside, drops of rain are falling

I wish I could get wet

Inside, drawings and documents greet me

And I slog along with the tide

Of multiple, faceless Joes like me

This is my life

The Bilge Master