ANHEDONIA

If what you want is love you are still the enemy,
you have not yet thought through clearly what that means.
On the gender selection screen I mark omnia sunt
communia. Depressed people’s kindness tastes 
like backwash you have to learn to live on. I spent the 
last decade sewing camouflage for my enemies. Even the situation
couldn’t believe itself. The hors’ d’oeuvres were granular.
The grants stagnated after the palatial estates caught wind.
Every house eavesdrops on the neighborhood. What if your
neighborhood was a stranger’s favorite spaceship? What if
your angle was right? This grief has become self-congratulatory. 
Which is a way of saying I am alive I am alive I am alive I am alive.
A redundancy we sell to the highest bidder. What is the minimum 
survivable wage in Northeast Ohio? Yeah let’s make it a dollar less than that

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Originally published in COMA

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By Brendan Joyce 👍