On Drawing on the Desk and Other Maladaptive Behaviours

“Preacher, preacher! Fifth grade teacher!
You can’t reach me, my mom can’t neither”
—Eminem, ‘Criminal’

Hey I’ve just got back, kids,
From building all these layers (meta-verses
They may call them) of myself
Or selves or realities
Or fictions or ages or psychoses, some of it quite
Discursive un-
Kempt lines, clothes, hair (I had to make
A lot up
To get back) and what I found
Along the way was there
At the start
Anyway (I have
Some wisdom) which is
To say that it’s best to see a cry for help early.