Submissions by marktmichaels

I’m living in the future.
Things are fucking great.
I am so goddamn grateful
for the thing I ate.

The skies are filled with drones.
Humans lose their homes.
People crash into walls
staring at their phones.

Smoking pot is fine.
Being gay is cool.
There goes another kid
shooting up his school.

The tv is so loud
I cannot hear me think.
I curse and scream
and slam the door and
pour another drink.

The President is black.
His whitehouse is all white.
He spends a trillion dollars
so things will be...

Mournful melancholy
is a frozen staircase.
The ice is blue and white
and it cracks in the spring sun.
I slip and hit my head
and stare up at the sky.

my dog is a doo doo machine
my tv is a brain blender
my refrigerator is a blubber bank
my window is a speeding by car noise speaker
my computer is a magic box so I can see what someone I don’t really know is eating for lunch box
my hands will wiggle around and hold steering wheels and punch buttons for a few more years until they stop wiggling and lie still and then probably get burned up
my bed is a wake up in the middle of the night and worry about life machine
my friends are a get me drunk machine
my clock throws minutes into the garbage can
my calendar...

Screens, screens, screens!
All I see is screens!
They cover up my eyes
and pixelate my dreams!

Desktop and tablet
and touch screens galore!
iPhone and flat screen
and movies and more!

I know that there are mountains
because I've seen them on the screens,
and women and whales,
they show me on the screen!

I've been to space
I've been to France
even though I've never been!
I've been to almost everywhere
I've been there on the screens!

My friends are little faces
that live inside the screens!
I have...