in a city with no end in sight i remember
certain types of plants need shadows and i'll say yes
i'll say
i am one of them.
my friend had to have
her baby in the hospital during a pandemic and what would it be like
to be born a bringer of light
in a city with no end
do you ever simultaneously wish someone would shut
the fuck up and also wish
they would hold you
today we listened to "Apocalypse" by Cigarettes After Sex and
I wanted to write to you to ask how you are little writhing and so many of us
out of mind. but every
thing is bolted down to every
thing so as not to be stolen by a stray
bad thought.
this is when we could really be our best selves and are we.
this is when we could really show up for one another and do we.
this is when we could say "this is what it was like" and will we.
i thought to go out back and move that taut yellow squirrel corpse
and when I did it it was shrivelled and dark. it happened
so fast in absence of heat or water and I thought to myself
o i know nothing
about death and what comes after.
o i know nothing
about how the body rots
in a city.