I'm sick
don't have time
for these calls
I'm afraid
of civil war
I hate them both
because she's a woman
and black
am I a racist?
I would vote green
if I could
but I can't
every time
you don't hang up
it's a surprise
respiratory infection
reach down a lung bottom out at an inch knife and pin wet concrete does my voice sound thin? Regeneron! blessing from god not since Abraham Lincoln has anyone done what I have done with all of you and your prayers
cough
a storm comes for the body puts that taste of metal in the mouth shivers, twitchy muscle the self dissolves into a fog which is a kind of grace but then it congeals into solid form and wraps its grip around the throat do not be afraid hormone crisis, hardwired terror empties the bowels
doomscroll
he turns the tv on and off has a hamburger and a freakout cook and valet butler and body man hair and make up ultraviolet light bleach he moves deeper and deeper into the house cleans it out
dexamethasone
I got COVID and went to school learned so much didn’t read any books but now I know white knuckle cortisol dump I circle the hospital and then the house feeling great nothing like a steroid ride rose garden family plot I stop and stand to be admired pull up my spine while my body shrinks inside my suit
florida
there is no living here can’t afford wasting my time at 89 say a prayer go to the polls
antibody
the virus he thinks will die inside him scoured and bleached nothing survives in there
coughing all around the house
a mild case is not so mild night terrors cold sweat proud boys men with torches cars and guns children in cages a white woman in stilettos ground glass in her lungs
Pocahontas
it is hard to underestimate how much the world can hate a woman oh, the math on that the scale of the debt the resentment and taxes fury and shame home grown and harvested
Deep Canvas
hello queer asshole I’m really busy eating dinner working if he wins I am putting my money under the mattress it feels so hopeless I am here in the woods in Utah, for work above a diner why would I vote for that asshole I do not know who he is you aren’t associated with the republicans are you? the last few years can’t do anything ruin everything in a nursing home not here at college I just retired listen! listen! you did this the other day what is your name I wish he didn’t say will you please shut up
Trouble Thinking 
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