I heard they have a plan in America
to replace all the human beings
with self-driving cars with neflix subscriptions
in a landscape of drive-thrus stretching from
sea to sea
the most efficient system ever
to eat their own people alive
“thank god for the river or those people from down south would overrun us”
she said, watching them pull three point turns
in the parking lot of homeland security
that night after we’d blown the rainbow bridge
cruelty has purpose
the violence just is
a live grenade in a hospital lobby
a ship on fire
all hands on deck
“I don’t understand why you’re so unhappy”
he said when I showed him where the swimming pool tiles had cut my face
like I was meant to thank him
that was the day we lost Bruce
what did you expect
a guy like him
getting lost in his own neighbourhood
though all the houses do kind of look the same
a wall of tanks
shedding sparks on the way to put out a fire that isn’t burning
(2023)
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