sitting here listening
to John Prine talk
about how to find
Jesus
now
he’s dead
too
thanks to this whatever
the fuck it is
still
floating
through the
air
but he talked some
truth before
he left
everyone’s eyes
seem hollow
now
so
then
hello in
there
what’s new?
so now here it is
Friday night
and the cat’s agitated
things are mostly silent
for the moment
mostly
heard a couple explosions outside
a little while ago
but that’s to be
expected
now:
no place to go
why not make a great horrible
noise in the road
I’m okay but
it’s not okay that
I’m that way
and these days
they’re not okay
either
except that they are
kind of
and kind of not
it’s all in
the eyes
or something
and I get it
the things we’re being
asked to do now
are fairly
strange
or at least ring
unnaturally
to us
shit’s pretty common practice
in Asia
whose people are usually a
fair bit healthier
on the whole
than we are
but I
digress
we are FREE
we are FREEDOM
yes
so but anyway I’m not
getting into all that
there’s no victory down that road
you’ll all continue to do
whatever the hell you want to
do
and I’ll continue to bask in how
since I can stay home
as often as I want now
I don’t have to pretend
anymore
to like
any of you
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