#5may2023

[thisnewsisbananas]

Wow: Geneticists Created an Organism Immune to All Viruses

Sure could've used this a few years ago.

[purplemonkeysexgod69]

there I was, pegging my pants, denim and dog years,

milking the last vestiges of the 80's, trading fears for tears.

youth inevitably becomes a memory, a trail of breadcrumbs

towards bad religion, worse English, & the beating drums

of my genesis. we pulled ourselves out of comic books,

finding our aha moments in music videos & catchy hooks.

screaming "welcome to the jungle", as we swung on monkey bars

& spun on merry go rounds, like a record, baby; scars

& insubordination, goonies & pelvic gesticulations.

here I am, all grown up, my body prone to disarticulation,

laughing like violins filled with water, in A minor,

writing poems, none no finer.