14 Jun 2019

The new human



  
The new human is soft yet evolved
Surrounded by wire and plastic
Susceptible to rain
Wind
Flame
They are strong in small corners
Yet easily beaten
In the great wide open

Being inherent to the crowd
They do not stand out from the crowd
A contradiction
Ants that swarm without interaction
Carried on the promise of importance
Anxious and driven by
Someone
Somewhere

The new human is destined to fail
To devolve
Plant pots on heads
Boiler suits
Screaming surreal nonsense for all to
Enjoy

And they can’t even see it
Coming.









10 Jun 2019

Close up coin magic


‘How is your day going’
He said to everyone that came to pay for
Anything
Even the girl ahead of me
Paying for two boxes
Of different sized tampons

No bother that she
Didn’t want to converse
Over her 24 sanitary products
He still asked

Then it was my turn
A pack of gum
‘How is your day going’
I had to answer
You have to answer
But I gave the generic back
Fine/thanks

Behind him sat a dog eared paperback
Close up coin magic
Might have been his
Or belonged to one of the others that
Worked in there
There were many

Doesn’t matter
At least it showed one of them
Still gave a shit about living a real life
And exploring things
Outside the grinding politeness
Of asking assholes like me how we’re doing
All
Day
Long.