Suspicious Glitches

poetry that pairs well with the apocalypse and a nice merlot

The Other Bootstrap

Do not calculate resist-
ance of spring-loaded
mechanisms, that comprehension
is slow and pointless
because
by the time it
has happened
it
has already
happened. Strike
matches in
 
parallel in ball
gowns at company picnics
Match strikes in bowling
alleys on the dull side
of town
Underneath the lullaby
thud of orbs that
whirl
 
like planets, hear the
same query in
myriad iterations: “What
job should
I dress for?”
Well-suited is, somehow,
well-
 
suited, mass collusion
unproven, it might behoove
you to cut
your
hair in the shape of
amulets and craft implants
from millennia of oppression
You, too, can look just
like a thought experiment.

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