ted talk

money will build anywhere

there’s a view or a coastline

all those tangled shrubs and thorny bushes

your ancestors cut through centuries ago

to claim in the name of a queen

and a king with foul smelling hair

these days even the ecotone

between the living and the dying

has to be privatized & sold at auction

all the steps between next year

and the first human year ever recorded

melted so flagrantly it became stylish to be poetic

for the end of the world

everyone’s collecting coins on every interface

a thousand identical posts about 2019

being the year of paper straws

and reusable cups

indigo dyeing from Kyoto

is the new 36 hours in Tbilisi

all the people with phones

don’t think twice about buying onboard wifi

on their way to the latest Caribbean island

still recovering from last year’s hurricanes

would it be so wrong to wish

everyone with global entry be grounded

until extinction is off the table

I don’t think I can date another

digital nomad or a normie with a dog

who doesn’t know what it’s like

to be too poor to buy their way

out of disaster

why do the rich treat blame

like it’s obscenity

or a fossil

is it because they hate seeing blood

think they are noble for taking

quick little showers

and using silicone at the farmer’s market

I have never seen someone forgive themselves

as elaborately as the wealthy

everyone who paid for their wellness

is infecting the rest of us

yes I am sick sick sick

and want to sterilize all the ruinous overseers

though it is not like me to dream so much

I have managed to hoard something

that cannot be replicated

it will die when I die

let no one say we didn’t try

to let a different kind of  life bloom

and let no one say we didn’t touch

what was there from the beginning