PARANOID CITI

A BASKET IS A HEAD?
A BODY OF ASKS?
DO THEY COME
FROM A FIXED POINT?
DO LILACS WANDER?
WERE THEY PREGNANT?
DID THEY GIVE BIRTH
WHAT DID LILACS LOSE?
PREGNANT WITH WHAT
WHAT ABOUT VANITY?
THEIRS? MINE? DO WE LIKE
HOW WEAK THEY ARE? DO
YOU THINK THEIR TROPHIES
ARE EXPECTED? DO THEY FEEL
A TINGLE IN THEIR SHOULDERS
IN THEIR BLADES
WHEN THEY WIN?
DO THEY READ ABOUT AESTHETIC
PRINCIPLES IN BOOKS TYPE
THEIR THOUGHTS OUT
FOR THE INTERNET? DO LILACS
KNOW ABOUT SYMMETRY
IN NUMBERS? THE ASYMMETRY
OF WORN DÉCOR? DO LILACS
EVER BECOME BORED
STYLISTS WHO BUY THEIR BOYFRIENDS
MILK? YOU TELL ME! WOULD LILACS
GIVE THEIR WATER AWAY
FOR YOU? DO LILACS RUN
AROUND TENDER? DO THEIR LEGS
GET SLEEPY? AS THEY PLACE A LEAFING
OF GRASS BETWEEN THEIR
FINGERS TO BREATHE
DO THEY BLOW? ARE THEY LIKE
YOU?
DO LILACS BLOW FOR NOISE?
DO THEY NEED THE HORN
LIKE THE HORN NEEDS WATER?
IN CASE THEY NEED NOISE
LEAVE A SOUND MACHINE
ONE IMITATING WATER
FOR THE LILAC
WHILE THEY SLEEP

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from Paranoid Citi–published by Tabloid

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By Shannon Hearn 👍