METH GATOR SWAMP BOWL VIRUS BLUES

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A Rusty Pandemic remix 
of Bob Kaufman's "heavy water blues"
& Wanda Coleman's "heavy daughter blues"
 
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For Amy, who created the title 

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instagram is teaching my memories anesthesiology.
i am in love with an unfuckable left swipe.
my neighbors refuse to wear their faces
& i speak bullshit. 

my isp is threatening to cut off my libido.
the amazon subcontractors leave dogshit on my stoop.
i smashed my mirror so i could hide,
too tired, too fucked, too medicated for tears. 

i went to the kombucha bar
disguised as a bearded hipster.
i did not recognize
myself. 

i dream i dream...eh
maybe i'll just masturbate.

put the bitcoin in the goodwill pile.
trump's taken the white house,
the stormtroopers shine
their boots. 

i always misunderstand other people's afflications
so i troll them. then we clash. 

when reading all those thick tomes on god
it should be noted that heaven is a credit agency. 

the voice of the millennium is a muffled scream,
a dead migrant whose silence 
fills every space 
like chlorine
gas. 

now that machines finally have taken over
can i retire? or will they strip me
for parts?

i have a one-way ticket 
to mars, promised to 
me by elon musk. 
i need to escape love.

after riding the interstate in my toyota yaris
i bought plastic knick-knacks at south of the border,
blenheim's ginger ale on my breath. 

instagram is serving my memories absinthe.
i am in love with a terrorist who's afraid
of plastic explosives. 

the constant preoccupation of the addicted
is checking their phone notifications. 

i meme the symbols. i burn thought. 

myth/my wife & me 
munch on ruffles all dressed chips
as we stream the apocalypse