Insipid Life
the central plan, the plane of existence
walking, talking, driving
the “I” hosted a cat, a friend’s father’s funeral
the Friday and how academia turns into a black hole
while you roll into a mere machine part manifest of the paycheck
while the transcendentalist naively, childlike, ran after the
blue ball bouncing endlessly towards the streets
the street car named desire
to say the stars are not eternal, nothing is eternal
except for the moment you forget in gleaming eyes
like perfect mackerel essence, you do not exist except
you do not talk about, you do not daddy talk about
fight club called life
for the moment you become one with your cigar, sun, unfulfilled
desired photographs feigning peoples
faking unlikes, un-passions, and pullbacks
nature already stillborn, inside is there insipid hope?
Image: Julia Soboleva