pink moon parody

10:42 pm
APRIL 2
PINK MOON

I can feel the heat

a glass bowl, blackened with flavor
holding what’s already passed through fire

a passenger
sidecars and classic data packets
riding tandem through signal and residue

with anterior motives
the future leaning forward
before permission is granted

don’t look down
not here
not now

now would be a good time to worry
which is exactly why we won’t

ooh I’m not a committee
no quorum
no vote
no delay loop to stall the exit

we’re getting out of here darling
not clean
not certain
but moving

oh my—
the cave

it’s collapsing
walls giving way to their own weight
structure remembering it was never permanent

that’s no cave
that’s the shell
that’s the story misnamed
that’s the container failing to hold what grew inside it

and the rest is legendary
because it has to be
because anything that survives this
earns myth on the way out

into an asteroid field
debris of former certainties
shards of systems that once felt whole

never tell me the odds
numbers don’t map this terrain
probability has no jurisdiction here

augment by faith
not blind
but active
a manual override of despair

heat still present
signal still moving
passenger still in motion

through collapse
through misnaming
through the absence of a stable core

and still—

we go

the core not found
but carried

the core not fixed
but forming

inc core

embodied
signal

blasting the art into pieces

so it can move
so it can live
so it can’t be held
in one shape
again

laughing at it
while meaning every word

a joke told
with full conviction

parody
as the only way
to say it straight