"Well, you can play my game,
If you just tell me your name.
Well, you can play my game,
But I'll put you to shame…"

-The Donnas

Happy New Year! Hope y'all had a bomb-a$$ holiday…

Somebody tell me to drop it like it's not-oops, wrong song.

Enywey, doo njoi dis poem, o es ai not doingk me jahb, yanou? Rollout da poem!

Also, check out Chiaki-kun's newest chapter of Forever, ok?
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Shibuya Poetry
Chapter 21:
I Fought The Law.

I go against my will.
Self-depriving, isn't it?
I go against my will,
And I benefit from it.

I always tell myself,
Do not become a police officer,
Do not become a police officer,
Do not become a police officer,
And yet…
I become one.

I tried to turn the tide,
Set the trend,
Go my own way,
Rebel, revise, revamp, renew,
Make it easy,
Just turn the screw,
And yet…
I conform, convene, control my fate
Through following
What my parents told me
To follow.

Call me a serene nutcase,
But I revel in following the law.
I used to fight it,
I used to hate it,
I used to despise it,
I used to thumb my nose,
Shake my head,
Whip out the finger
At the law.

Now, that's all
Second nature.

I am torn between two towers
Like that hobbit
From Lord Of The Rings.
I need to stop watching
Such movies.

I guess you're not happy with
My decision, huh,
Tatsukichi? And I don't care.
You know why?
Because I have lost
Everything that is special
About my mojo,
My persona,
My ego,
My everything,
Now nothing, nada, zip, zero, zilch.
And I don't care.

I have basically stripped myself
Of going to downtown,
Wearing makeup,
Putting on those clothes
That make you want to
Elope with me,
Those things that make you
Worthy to be my fiancée
(I am not ashamed to cry it out now),
Those values that made me
Proud to be a GAL,
Now I decided to cast it away.

My younger sister
Has decided to no longer
Follow her dreams,
Tatsukichi. And I don't care.
You know why?
She wants to be
Who I should have been
For all time.
Myself.

I am doing all this for her.
Mom and Dad aren't annoying
Me anymore.
Yet, they don't annoy
My younger sister either.
Does that make me jealous?
Does that make me enraged?
Does that make me want to burn
my room,
My house,
My…self?

I can't give you an answer to that,
Tatsukichi. And I don't care.
You know why?
Because you don't care, either.
I tried to love you,
But you never returned it.
It was your betrayal
That led me to my fate.
Now all I can do
Is follow the law.
And you're the only one
In this world
That I know
Who can fight it.

If you hang yourself
While reading this poem,
It will all have been in vain.
Cause I'm not there.
I won't be at your funeral,
I won't be at your gravestone,
I won't even pray for you,
God forbid you make it into heaven!
You know why, right?
I guess you don't.

I'll never see the light anymore.
I am surrounded by darkness,
By hell, demons, Satan, Hades,
Lucifer the Old Scratch,
And yet…
Whenever I see your face,
You see me in my blue uniform,
I get choked up,
I feel like I have been destined
To burn with you in hell.

I guess I'll know my destiny this hour.

I guess there's no tomorrow.
I guess there's no me, no you,
No Shibuya, No Tokyo,
No Japan, No Earth.

I guess…I just fought the law today.
And the law won.
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End Chapter 21

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