2022 - 13/30 - Yes And

[skonen_blades]

Remote control carcass
Enjoy the flowers while you can
The sun on your life-support skin
Revel in your pre-zombie senses
Frankenstein’s monster running out of batteries
Temporary miracle
Your own planned obsolescence working hard within
The zippers being undone
Threads ripping
One long battle of attrition being lost
A leaking of heat
Diminishing returns on the fuel-to-cost ratio
A constant triage party
Happening without your consent
Throughout the damaged ladder of your body

But your gelatinous fragile cameras
Behold so much
The puzzle pieces you assemble in your meat crown
Add up to so much more than what you see

Outside
You plod damaged towards the end
But inside
You leap to conclusions
Pirouette into space
Think around corners
And dodge bullets

We’re pilots tied to our seats
Welded into our planes
Puppeteers gone full method
There are only three escape hatches
And one of them’s permanent

But this prison has a glorious window
Where anything can be outside
And travel is always possible
Escape can be recreational
Imagination making sanity possible
By letting us be
(what if)
(yes and)
not here, not here





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