Above the Sea, Below the Stars.



Not a game but
a puzzle stuck due to
pieces missing from
collective wisdom.  Go


where the kids
went: an exorcism
in ether augmented
by dank apps.


Tell me of your
homeworld usually
I don’t react
to the weather


while it drags knuckles
along the esplanade.
Disembodied yellow eyes
flitter among the cairns


like mating damselflies.
A fair coterie
at the fair all tricked out
in chitin livery.  


Lose your mind
& dance forever
across the shoals;
go where the poppies


grow from the skulls
of CFOs &
unemployed nurse
practitioners


alike.  Hopping into
this body is no worse
than any other.  Each stinks
in its own house.


Love gets used
to the smell
& it’s like it’s
not even there:


when you share
your socks,
the whole world
recoils with


reckless abandon.
Something
we can all agree
on:


you are less
interesting than the man
who has a talking
dog & a parakeet


who lights
his own cigars
while quoting reruns
of This Is Us.

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