if we
divorce ourselves from the o-zone layer of satellite imagery
distance ourselves from the rubber tire smog ground floor and
deafen ourselves to the grinding churning mine tap-the-oil underground,
we might just be able to
breathe for another hundred [dog] years
see the stars again
but we
plug ourselves committed to optimism into today's russian roulette choice tv show
shove isolate-your-superior-musical-tastes love songs into our uneducated sophistiquée I'm-an-arts-student ears and
crank up the volume bleed out our hearts in song dance smiles
and we
feel-good appreciate notions that all we need is love but unanimously u
subliminal side-track kickstart to your lemonade
day chew the wrapper thirty times and
fall down revel in an all-new Hallmark occasion to
live
plastic ants and iPhones grind grind grind marching
cement-tinfoil-Plexiglas pillars oppressing and
overbearing time with the shadows of the limelight condemning
life to the cracks-in-the-sidewalk faraway reaches of
sand broken glass beaches Frisked up with Mentos
unseeables must integrate
integrate
retrograde
alleviate our pulses hide away the secrets we
consume and proliferate a re-cap on what's acceptable to
Be American
wave your stars-spangled twenty-dollar flag in
the faces of
2AM caffeine binge, upcoming deadlines and a newly-discovered art site? whyever would I annotate murkid texts when there are such bigger opportunities pretending to exist.
well, hello. i'm marles. how are you this nonmorning?