Curation

Curating the images
of my life
into something worth
the viewing

Sunsets at the beach
Bands mid-song in concert
Odds and ends of nature
Curious graffiti
Vacation pictures
Palms in dying light

Mere moments
in a larger narrative

What is unseen

The hours spent alone
in contemplation
and solitude
Self-doubt
Drunkenness brought
on by helplessness
Laps spent sweating
at the track
Hours at work
spent on the phone
answering questions
waiting for the shift
to be over

Curious curation

A life filled with images

Which will I hold
when at last
the light
begins to flicker
and wane

On Modernity

It is no longer necessary to be kind and understanding
when we are able to curate a vision of the world that
stands in unanimous agreement with us.

Discourse has no place in discussion and we can reduce
one another from fellow human to ignorant fool in a breath.

It's no longer necessary to travel the world to view our vast
capacity for cruelty- one need only to look at their phone.

Without Dissent

A choir of voices echoing back,

babbling into nonsense

where language once was.