The Dirtyish Way

The way
is the path
of clean living,
but I am in the way
of the dirtyish artist,
and the way
can get dirty,
or gonzo,
or filthy,
or disgusting,
or even evil,
but those ways
are too wrong
for me,
although
I was pretty gonzo
for awhile,
so I am
about ten percentage points
off of
the clean living way,
but I tried
to live
the spiritual way,
and the holy way,
and the monkish way,
and even the saintly way,
but those ways
were all wrong for me,
because I wasn't really good enough,
so I have settled for
the dirtyish way
of the artist,
and that's fine
with me.