these days feel like draining a wound / into a champagne flute / D.R.E.A.M as in Death
Rules  Everything  Around  Me  /  a  Salt  Lake  City  Real  Housewife  says  I  deserve
presents just for breathing  /  a Spotify playlist called #recessioncore  /  the internet
is  trying  to  sell  me  something  that  looks  like  /  blinkers for humans / infernal
scroll  /  the grind  is grinding  /  I never  imagined  the apocalypse  would be so
slow  /  so boring  /  so full of takeout  /  in the wake  of a   perfume commercial
rife with symbols & sillage  / I am left  / plaiting my hair into tiny nooses / for
each tiny  moment  /  that passes  /  connection to meaning  has never been
so hard  ritual  is now  the name of a  food ordering app  /  you never log
off  /  dreams are emails  from yr subconscious  /  sent to remind you of
the most impending deadline of all  /  angel is just a prefix to investor
/ paperwork as the highest form of prayer /  money is the new apex
of  spirituality  &  we are all its  sanctified lil bitches  /  just  look at
photographs  of  Wall    Street  stockbrokers    during  the  Global
Financial Crisis  /  hands to their faces in what can be viewed as
reverence  /  a Daily Mail article describes a Gwyneth Paltrow
vagina-scented    candle    exploding    as    infernal    flame  /
someone    somewhere    has    to  be  praying    for    all  of
humanity to be saved from Goop  /  I am watching a viral
sensation    on  TikTok  talk    about things    she  doesn’t
understand /  she says /  who looked at something and
said  that’s  the  sky  /  overhead    microplastics  blur
into the sunset  /  heaven  used to mean  everything
above us  that  we could see  /  but now  it’s  just a
place  /  you might not go  when  you die  &   the                                              closest
thing we have to forever is plastic