NEON NIGHTS

03/21/23

Putin stalks the Mariupol streets before meeting with Jinping. N. Korea enlists nearly a million new soldiers under the guise of defensive triumph. We parade the cast of Ted Lasso around the briefing room. A former president and former pornographer and current DA pencil in plans for this week regarding former PDA. I light a candle. It smells like basil, orange blossoms and wormwood. I put a record on. It is Meat Is Murder from 1985. I write a poem. It is about daffodils. It’s hard to love within absolutism. I want to smoke a cigarette at our portes-fenêtres and stare into the rain watching the fountain fill.