A Major Difference Poem by Joshua Bantum

'I wanna say you have patience, but I think you just have tolerance '

He smiles,
slightly ignoring my interruption,
he serves
another
a beer

'A monk has patience, but you....your like a mailman who has tolerance'

He nods,
laughs,
and goes on serving many more beers
to the night.

'There's a major difference'
I say,

He nods again,
barely.

He's at face with truth,
unable to register this revalation.
He's too close

I continue,

'One thinks just the world is crazy,
the other excepts that everything is'

He now ignores me all together.

I grabbed a steak that fell out of this old mans jacket, sitting beside me,...
I read some bukowski to the bar crowd...
I got kicked off stage...
I danced passionatly with a friend...
Someone left a box of pizza hanging from my bike handlebars...
I told a women caught in her looks,
Staring in a mirror,
That there was nothing a hundred dollars couldn't fix,
She didn't know i was calling her a prostitute,
I told her she couldn't sit by me
Because I didn't feel like falling in love...

She sat down,

I left

I made it home and fell to sleep
dreaming of steak and eggs for breakfast...

Yes my friends
everything is crazy

And the more you just tolerate it,
the more it'll push at you,

And because you imagine yourself with limits
and the chaos does not

You will lose it
and truly see
how crazy
everything truly is