live one day at a time and then die all at once/ its hard to get used to never changing/ never become disabused of clever phrasing/ alienation is knowing that time well spent is time wasted/ put our heads together and end up with big welts/ go tend to our wounds separately/ time gets old/ think about bird feathers poetically/ the quill runs the inkwell dry/ renewable resources under the falling sky/ tears spill from puffy eyes like water overflows from a careless pour/ hapless, trapped in a metaphor/ grassfed, free-range/ half-dead, pee stains/ on the toilet bowl/ is there a story behind that yellow splotch?/ pretty much, life is what gets run over by our racing thoughts/ roadkill, sloppily erased nature/ american malaise, the world drowned by a melting star-spangled glacier
the coincidence of insanity and art/ im a mannequin in your amazon shopping cart/ vanity imparts instructions we try in vain to follow/ i feel pain when i swallow, keeps me up past minerva’s owl