Tupperware 

Originally Published in Issue #9 of Anarkiss Zine




What’s the difference 

    Between the internet and God

    They both control me 

                                     and   free will is dead


I happened out of bed with a dead phone so I missed 

reading all those poems that 

usually saturate my feed that

usually seem             


      prophetic,                                      brimming with           superfluous words . . . 

                words  that  steam        &                    sizzle       like               chicken soup.             make  

you                                                           salivate   with                 atypical  

   empty space      

words             clawing their way              out,            yearning                  to exist    ,         to become

                      beyond the screen   .      I am  nothing but     

    a salivating 

tupperware

Look, 

I can do it too.    


Tupperware. Porn filled tupperware is all this is,

     and locking your screen is just snapping the lid back on, 

     the same way you’d do for your leftover lasagna. 

     Don’t you love short form content like you love your dinner? 

     FEED! 


Oh, how my lid’s become worn, 

how my mind’s become worn, 

how my eyes have carmelized 

with a bloodshot

 grey film

& how my plastic coating 

has been vaporized by radiation.  


Finish writing your song in one go,

said John Lennon, otherwise 

it’s two people writing one song, and it’s better to be one person writing one song 

but I’m eighteen people writing this one poem, constantly interrupted by my insatiable need to be FED                          by my FEED 

which nourishes me like GOD 

because it’s everything in the whole world TOGETHER

 in one instant and it’s the hive mind and it’s tupperware filled with so much 

porn that 

the lid won’t snap on.