Claw the System

He was the head writer for the Emmy Award-winning children’s show SeeMore’s Playhouse and has written for Onion News Network, Smosh, McSweeney’s, and the New York International Fringe Festival. He lives in New York City and on Twitter at @fmarciuliano. He has yet to acquire a jetpack.

If you need me, I won’t be here

US NOT YOU

Living with you

Is not about being yours

It’s about being ours

Two

Together

Move over

Wow

Did you always have such a problem with personal boundaries?

And why don’t they ever leave my house?”

rebuild

Change can only happen

When you finally see

What you’ve been looking at

Your entire life

Like, “Who is this family?

The ugliest lamp since electricity met wiring

But I will never confuse

A loss for defeat

I will never think

That doom is predetermined

I will never forget

That time I found an open pack of treats

And ate what must have been like 20 pieces

In six seconds!

Which has got to be a personal best

Yes, I will always remember

That there is still good in this world

KEEP GOING

It can’t get worse

It can’t get worse

It just can’t get worse

And yet, sometimes, it can

DON'T EXPLAIN YOURSELF

Don’t waste your breath explaining yourself

To people determined you go unheard

Don’t make it your goal to convince a person

Committed to dismiss your every word

If someone refuses to understand you

Don’t wait until they do

Instead go and prove you were right

That a tray of mac and cheese can be a meal and a bed, too

which point, yeah

We will claw and claw and claw

At your closed bathroom door

Until the contractor you hired says

“You should consider a beaded curtain instead.”