give thanks 2

intimacies of detraction
foster
legacies of extraction

the paterfamilias
on a faulty
paternoster
compartments missing
a link
falling / referencing
infraestructual
loopholes
in the space / time
continuum

give thanks
for
manifest destiny
a continent
to despoil
the long view of earth
reveals
an ape hostage
to base instinct
sentient only
in delusion

we can do better
insist on it
make it so

What I’m Reading:

“Everyone expected to die in debt, and had learned not to mind. It was just a fact of living in a country on the decline.”

— Ling Ma / “Tomorrow” / Bliss Montage