Pseudosocial Wasteland

You are the problem

My biggest problem is me and your biggest problem is you

I get the allure of the news

I feel the draw toward righteous indignation

Sometimes I want to draw up the ladder behind me and be my only

company in my head and then

Beat myself with a stick up there. and cry uncle

and Let the ladder down again where my loved ones

Tsk Tsk me for drawing up the ladder again

I like the bitter haze of Instagram

The way I like cigarettes until they coat my fingers in tar

And I smell it when I curl up to sleep and remind myself of destruction

My tranquil wind is a cargo plane

My garden is the gridlock of bagged corollas leaking

My dream is to get out of my way

#poetry