Happy Birthday, Careful of the Arsenic

Anodyne mine, anodyne mine,
Darkness wrapped in sunshine lines…
Choose red or white tonight;
One goin' in, one goin' out,
Same either way, really…

Recreant, I am, I am,
But of course, afraid to admit;
Reiterate that, 'gain an' again,
Then relegate anything relevant
To the back of my cloudy mind…

Knee deep in shrapnel,
Nightmaring of imaginary friends…
Publicly traduced in private,
Privately reduced to a laughingstock
Placated by the thought of wasting tonight.

God, we love our life.