i wanted to tell you something in order to explain the way i feel about the universe its workings etc but i could not yesterday i'm sorry i wanted only to ball myself up and cry all day it was the sixteenth day in a row this happened to me and to be more than two weeks waiting to cry is especially when the whole time i was not able to absolutely horrible it was no sweet sixteen i'll tell you that much unless at yours the universe kept telling you to quit having such a ball and that you should have died like yesterday at first it feels like you're winning that yesterday you really were meant to die but since you still are you beat the system somehow but the universe bawls no i meant you should've crawled into a hole and fucking died and then the universe punches you right in the gut something like sixteen times and all you can think is some sixteenth birthday maybe i will go die in a hole yesterday at times like this is a luxury the cruel universe refuses to give you this is when it is a pain just to be when that marvell line about rolling our stuff into one ball just seems glib when you do not want one body let alone two something else that may come as a surprise to you over the past more-than-a-fortnight these sixteen days i've had nothing to eat but crackers and a cheese ball that's not entirely true yesterday i had some candy peppermints and jujubes maybe this is why i'm so mad at the universe because all it has ever wanted this universe that gave me life fed me from its breast til i was two and even before that made a place in which i could be all it is wanted was for me to take the sixteen steps to sobriety fold the eight-fold path over yesterday and step around it lightly as i would an exercise ball but the problem is dear universe there's no way i could be something as hard as all that to wake up yesterday morning stretch over my sixteen selves bound out like a ball