Wasted youth

An ambrosial nectar

Wild and uncouth

Tangled hair

Dampened forms

The summer’s air

Weaved into

Silken sheets

My wasted youth

Barren azimuth

Your celestial lips

Lustered embraces

I’m floatin’ in Styx

The pyrrhic victory

Of social cruelty

Squandered virility

A tiresome tirade

Abound the path

Like fuckin’ hounds

Oh, the ashen grounds!

Wasted youth

Wild and uncouth

His crimson boots

My liquored noose

Oh, how they loved

The marred flowers

And dizzied showers

Of a wasted youth

So wild and uncouth

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