QUOTE : It started when we were little kids.<br />Free spirits, but already<br />tormented by our own hands<br />given to us by our parents.<br />We got together and wrote on desks<br />and slept in laundry rooms near snowy mountains<br />and slipped through whatever<br />cracks we could find,<br />minds altered, we didn't falter<br />in portraving hysterical and<br />tragic characters in a smog<br />filled universe.<br />we loved the dirty city<br />and the journeys away from it.<br />We had not yet been or seen our friends, selves,<br />chase tails round and round in downward spirals,<br />leaving trail of irretrievable,<br />vital life juice behind.<br />Still, the<br />brothersbloodcomradespartnerfamilycuzz<br />was impenetrable<br />and we lived inside it<br />laughing with no clothes, and<br />everything experimental 'till<br />death was upon us.<br />In our face, mortality.