Other than the lost 5- dollar bill
Hiding in the hoodie
Hiding in the back of my closet
Tucked away in a lint-filled savings account
I rarely handle physical money these days
I use my phone
To click click
Face scan
Wallet activated
Hold near reader
Approved
I reload with another point and click
Drop-down, submit
More credits at my disposal
Where they come from
Where they go
No one knows
The cloud maybe
The fluffy grey weather manipulations
Dissipated
Imagine
Me
Shapeless
At the gates waiting for my password reset email
Ironic then I can’t buy my way into heaven
Being that all my riches are stored up there
Adjacent to thoughts and prayers
Sent up
For that one friend from high school
Who I knew
Kinda
His Facebook flooded with
Miss yous And RIPs
And gones but never forgottens
Several years have elapsed
Fading condolences into the land of
Remember so and so
Forgotten
Say his name
And pose next to cracking mural paint
In honor of a black life that mattered
Once
Upon a time
Freedom fairy tales
Platitudes rarely placate
The vacated space
Now occupied by hatred
Sick imaginations
The emperor’s new clothes
Don’t cover the holes
Of truths lay bare in the open
Naked
Legislation passed by asses
I didn’t vote for
Maybe because I was skeptical
Does my ballot even count
Am I a patriot
Fuck the government
Turns to tax evasion
Meanwhile
AI renderings of skyscrapers
Built atop
Renovated wastelands
The sign above the all-new plush plaza
Trump Gaza
We were here first borders
Evaporated
And redrawn as if one’s homeland is
A figment of imagination
Where do we belong
Where does the soul go after the body burns
Do internal scars heal
After the wound ceases to bleed
Aren’t we a wee
too old for games of make believe
When did we lose the right to return
To “real”
