Saturday, June 11, 2022

mmmdcxxii

shirking empathy

whispering with covid
after losing to senior
citizenship because of
not breathing (through
the nose) just oozes of
feel me feel you, doesn’t it?
“i’m not saying it only goes
one way,” he says, trowel
in hand, as the four walls
rise ever so slowly and
finally above his
eyeballs.

me right now