define /tragedy/

White suburban basements
full of kids pretending
wishing
that they’d had just a little less
surrounded by more of the same.

Lukewarm coffee
white-hot dreams
but
frozen ambition.

Somewhere on the other side of
happiness,
polar opposites
wishing they’d had just a little more
surrounded by more of the same.

Transparent dreams but
hard workers
and coffee
still lukewarm.

Genius must lie
drunk, somewhere
in between.