Rant: How to be an Outlaw

you know they say that freedom is just
another word for nothing left to lose
but an outlaw would rather be a free man
in his graves and live life as a puppet
or a slave as the man says he knows all
too well that the things you own end up
owning you and it refuses to get bogged
down by a simian hoarding habits that
corrupt your soul through temptation
besides criminals end up doing time
because of their material needs and when
you’re brought into the system it’s real
hard to live outside the law it’s a lot
more to be in an outlaw and living out
of reach of the long arm of the law
though and an ela defy social convention
just the same in fact he’s just as wary
of social convention izzy is of a hooker
with a clap speaking of bedrooms in bars
how laws have to follow the rules of the
modern day drift or just the same they
take what they need from the women and
leave them when it comes to bars they
have their poison of choice usually one
high ball one low ball I prefer whiskey
most American outlaws too however the
most important characteristic of an
outlaw the net law always carries a
deadly weapon whether it’s good
old-fashioned bare knuckles or a
motorcycle drivetrain that he wears as a
belt he’s always willing to take the
fight down to the death but the most
important weapon that an outlaw carries
and the one of the man clears the most
this is mine it’s one that can’t be
broken can’t be the sieve and can’t be
lied to and it haunts the man like a
specter of all his shortcomings so while
criminals go on fighting turf wars an
outlaw would much rather go on tasting
good and evils and your bedrooms in your
bars and trading in tomorrow for today
after all he’s running from his Devils
reaching for the stars and of course
losing all that he loves along the way