Validate Me, The Drunk Writer, and The Network Snarl

Validate Me

  Save me from the tyranny of self
  My thoughts, my opinions, my experiences
  Tell me that it's okay to think this way
  I won't do anything unless you feel it's okay
  I love what you like and the differences
6  This is my will and my health

  Validate me my friend
  Approve of me again and again
  Validate me, please!
  It's you I must appease

  I know what I said in earnest back then
12 But now I've changed my mind to yours
  Now you should have no problem accepting me
  I now see exactly what and how you see
  Forgive me if my eyes detour
  Just know that your preferences win

  Validate me at once!
18 And endorse our united front
  Validate me before I dither
  Before I wither

The Drunk Writer

  From ancient engravings on the walls of caves
  To the finest plume dipped in the finest ink
  The typewriter and then Word and other software
  The writer has relied on a drink fermented
  To loosen their mind so from their hands flows
6  Words that pray to the universe and its effigy
  The relationships fractured and bodies destroyed
  Because to share the thoughts they thought with all of eternity
  Numbed or had to be constantly celebrated
  Or maybe it is understood
  That the writer has to be drunk
12 To believe that someone
  Will actually care about what they have written

The Network Snarl 

  I've been looking for great kitchen knives
  The best on the market to cut vegetables and meats
  Review after review I revised
  Left me with too many choices to seek

  One reviewer posted a link to a website refreshing
6  It was a grand search engine that didn't hide results
  Knives galore! Many more choices for guessing
  Their history and their uses from food to occult

  I stumbled upon a review by someone completely insane
  It was written by an assassin that only used knives on his jobs
  He felt that rifles, pistols with silencers, and piano wire were inane
12 But shared links to those who used those tools and their ' more efficient' facade

  He used a blade that couldn't be searched on Google
  It also cannot be bought on eBay or Amazon
  When you search its name there are no results to doodle
  In fact, that knife doesn't exist, my spelling suggested wrong

  But there is review after review about this blade
18 Sharp enough to sever a man's head in one swift swipe
  Strong enough to cut her bones without struggle or rage
  With graphic video displays so you read the review right

  Yahoo, Bing, I asked Jeeves, and I Googled and Googled incessantly
  Because the existence of that knife I couldn't believe
  But no website out of billions had ever known that knife's discrepancy
24 That knife I had to retrieve

  It arrived in the mail one Sunday afternoon
  This glorious blade to gut my chickens
  As I carved I couldn't help but swoon
  And wonder about what else online is hidden

  I traversed the deep web all day and all night
30 No going to work or sleeping or even eating
  Just consuming the depths of the human condition's perverse rights
  And why this capricious depravity I'm seeking

  I waded through those dark depths
  Filled with the certain destitution that possesses much of humanity
  And why these websites and thoughts should be buried deeper and unkept
36 I then feared that all I sought to know was meant to control me

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