Art by Ariel Fintushel & Words by Oscar Bruno d'Artois

or maybe I was awake

spring is fall in reverse, as @Beach_Sloth taught us

& is it just me or did taking a right onto this block

feel like stepping onto a different planet?

& ok here is a question

do you think bears had antlers

back in the 80s?

ok, no, ok

but what about

back in the 1480s?

i am taking this top bunk

& i am taking it out to sea

& there is literally nothing

that you can do about that

i step on a piece of cracked cement &

suddenly i am reminded of the dream in which

the clouds were orcas &

we had the superpowers of a pineapple &

well that doesnt make much sense

my new thing is

confront me with an aspect of myself i dont like

& ill run to the nearest cave

on the other side of the continent

o, ok

listen asshole

there are at least 500 subways

grinding to a halt

at any given time

& they all make different sounds, ok?!

ok. BUT

if 2 people

have 2 bikes

& each bike only has 1 wheel

dyou think that if both of them get on their bikes at the same time

while going down a ste

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     eeeep hill that [something about gravity relenting] ?

& if the sun tries to hide behind a cloud

but its rays still poke out like

an erection poking thru a waistband

does that still count as it being shy

because, i’ll be honest

i cant walk between two lampposts

without my heart skipping a beat

& isnt it funny how people try to explain how their pain is physical

like, ‘i felt it in my heart, right here’

& then they point

& isnt it funny who it winds up being who tells you that

yr being an interstellar piece of shit

& that you need to stop pretending like you can just not live

yeah

it is nice to be alive feeling [mood] with you at the same time for now but

who knows what it will be like in a couple hours

given our just-keeping-it-real lifestyle

wat im saying is

hello humanity can we just slow down

bc idk bout you but mostly im just like

fuck o fuck o fuck fuck o help

i am alone with this streetcorner where we did

that thing that one time &

it’s threatening me with these whirlpools of you

anyway

enuf abt me

did you know that sea mammals can stop breathing at will?

Ariel Fintushel lives in Brooklyn, NY Oscar Bruno d'Artois also lives in Brooklyn, NY