lxii

you cannot help yourself
an endless feast
of faux allegiances
friends traced over fascists
a cacophony of recorrected sentences
argumentative search engine
subservience
what’s another word for “braindead”?

and i thought i was suicidal
drain another riverbed
indifference perpetual
fingertips poised
over generative deathnotes
slit wrist automation
if it makes your life easier
what is the harm in neglect?

bred to lubricate machinery
pour your hopes and dreams
into thoughtless routine
serve the cannibals well enough
and you will be rewarded
a warm spot atop the mass grave
how gentle an embrace
your systemic compatibility

existence in poetry //

transgender,
hopeless sapphic
gothic romantic //

revelations in love,
despair, hope
failure, beauty
death, personhood
resistance, healing //

non-indigenous woman
dwelling in Naarm
on lands sovereign
to the Wurundjeri people
this always was
always will be
Aboriginal land
paytherent.net.au //