My bus’s ceiling is breathing at me
29/12/24
I find it really difficult to get excited about much these days,
It's like living inside a vacuum filter when the carpet is full of life
and letting it in would risk suffocating me.
I find once wonderful things are just leaving me confused.
I’m stuck watching disney films with the screen off
so it seems like the cartoon voices are awing over a great void.
David Bowie sang about the day he’d die in the same way I don’t know what to make of my life.
I try to value living, but how can shipwreck divers sell sunken paintings
when the water damage has rendered the art illegible?
I try to seek degeneracy in ways that feel normal, but I had no clue how to go about that.
Left to my own devices, I’d moisturise in store-brand honey
and kiss people for the sake of having my teeth cleaned.
Your eyes, like two looming train headlights in the trolley problem.
I attend the smell of you like I’m Indiana Jones exploring a valley of ancient fog,
where it’s all post effects and I had to pretend at the time.
Nowadays, the bus ceiling above me bares a mind of its own,
And drips its thoughts down my ankles,
And whatever advice you’ve given, drips down with them just the same,
‘unable to apply anymore’.