Analog
Somehow I now believe
that everything everything everything is changing
No longer stagnant, more
drooping and collapsing and
pooling and swaying, glaciers
colliding and congealing
and thinking and feeling.
No, I am not stagnant
just because I don't have any money,
and I've never been to Thailand,
and I haven't "done anything" with my life.
I am not stagnant
because somewhere in a grimy coffee shop I used to sit in
someone is sharing ideas with strangers
and they are going home and seeing something
They've never seen before
rolling past the window on the bus ride home and
I cried in a shower yesterday
and pretended I was a rain cloud and
somewhere six hours away
someone six years younger
did the same thing,
but in a bathtub.
And I guess genetic mutations are really
similar to sobbing in various vessels of water
and I realize
that I've never thought that thought before.