I have to **** and
It's almost midnight
Signaling I'm still
Alive in nature with a pulse
And a make-believe

Majesty

Of majestic fortitude.

You
Keep telling me
Poetry matters

But you'd rather recite
A quote from
Housewives
Then Shakespeare, which, let's be honest,

Is the times and
We shouldn't feel bad

About our toilet bowl
Culture spinning down a drain
Ignorant
Of its circular celluloid

Catastrophe.

If I do, choose to,
I typically laugh into my cold,
Open palms
And remember

Poetry is eternity
And flesh,
And human obsoleteness
Is something

To be championed.