My fridge keeps turning off
My food becomes
Warm
Like the suns ever present glare
Inedible
It’s rotten
******* rotten
Like that money used to buy it
Like my attitude
I’m scared of their shopping carts
They push them like their arms are loose from their sockets
They flail their plastic beasts
In front of my feet
The wheels only graze me
But it’s enough to make the hair on the back of my neck stand up
I just need to replace my soy milk, man
Their faces are globes in the dark
Shiny and round
Stupid
Hollow
Spinning
There’s always something to set their sites on
Gimme dat
And the cart roars forward
My body is just an obstacle between them and another pair of
Shoes
They’ll shove into their closets
Where a thousand other things exist to fill their souls
Nervous ticks
Husband stays out too late
Nervous ticks
Wedding ring drifts closer to the tip of her finger
Nervous ticks
It isn’t just the salty sweat that pushes it forward
Nervous ticks
A new pair of underwear
Another shirt or two
His eyes might glisten
Like like like
Like they used too
Nervous ticks
I just need some soy milk, man