Don't Fuck With Me

Don't Fuck With Me
chalk on paper 8 x 10"
1989 self-portrait

You can't keep me down, I'm hardened steel

I've been cut by the knife and seared by the sun

I've ignored your insults and withstood your apathy

You have not the reservoir to douse the fire within me

I don't hold back and I don't give in

I'm just old enough and just grisly enough

And just rude enough to tell you how I really feel

And just numb enough to not even care

You can't touch me, don't even try

I've dodged your most outrageous arrows

Slung without good fortune or aim

That merely glance over my impenetrable armor

Don't be confused by a body that's badly bruised

Those scars born of rage are now trophies at my age

When everything's been lost, you find your one true cause

Don't stand in my way and I won't have to say

Don't fuck with me.