It takes 20 minutes
Coffee, puffs
And the headlines
With dozy, bleary eyes

It takes 20 minutes
To shit
And clean
The asshole

It takes 20 minutes
To run up
Or run down
For a smoke

It takes 20 minutes
Between
You insert
And take it out

All 20 minutes
Of life
Spent in capsules
Are of orgasmic pleasure

It takes 20 minutes
Just 20 minutes
To finish somebody
With words

It won’t take 2 minutes
My friend
With a bullet
From a tiny, coward barrel