Watch out for falling whales[ one. ]This dull smog has hung for months and monthsand months, settling heavy in my lungs, the tasteof cigarette ash grows ever sweeter on my tongueas inhale-exhale toxic burn my lips remember howto breathe, everything is cardboard but those cancer-sticks and vodka-drowning everything is grey butthe world is rainbow and out of reach and so I paintmyself to remove fingerprints from this crime-sceneexistence, ozone oil spills spread, rendering thesewings flightless to suffocate beneath the smog.[ two. ]I once heard that lightning is really intergalacticwormholes flashing closed, and thunder the spacewhales crashing to the mountain tops, the tooth fairywas really Janet’s druncle making excuses to sneakinto her bedroom after her parents were fast asleep,all those stories of happily ever after and the heroesalways winning and good and even being so damnunrealistically black and white- I once heard theperson who birthed me tell me they hated meand w
