Inside Outside

Inside Out
Whose side are you on, man?
Why these bars?
Why this tightness in my chest?
Why won’t you let me inside?
Why do the boots marching outside
Always bruise and churn my insides?
Which side am I on?
Outside or In?

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Illustration and poem by Jay Larsen

Ballpoint pen on paper snatched from a pizza place in the 80s

Drawn by a younger me full of teenaged angst,

yet even then there was a realization that my biggest limitations were inside me not outside