Nicole Wilson

i.

Hurry, they’re going to replace the President

Hurry, let’s spend!

Mom doesn’t decide which baby goes to War

            psyche pitch      mayhem normal            the breeze bit back            colors

            catastrophic

            sought kindness from a hand & felt

almost real

ii.

Don’t all beings want

to experience lightness and joy?             “concerned

with the fundamental nature of reality & being”  call on

the sanctity of the mind

wherein a ★  has seen many universes

in eyeglasses reflected old age, a condition of the mind

iii.

“Outside of being free, collide with everything” I hold

in you I break                force a cock

roach in the mouth

you’ll make me give you mine  

if I should die before I wake

they make you swallow all the needles

then invoice you

iv.

it’s embarrassing we all end up knowing people

who look just like us

trained The State to shoot guns, target black youths

vulnerable as match sticks

petals aren’t perfect inside their holes

of head, an aesthetic failing

Might as well drink whiskey

might as well go to the mountains and point

a laughingstock, a pool of blood

we strung them up from trees

v.

The Fed dropped in on the sanctity of the mind

Nothing for podium to do

no help for unhoused who are weighing

down the silo of denial

ears to atmosphere walls to eyes

“What a beautiful nature scene on your computer screen!” #beautifulnature   [♥️]

Culture commodified

the thorax through every throat