Masked essentials shepherd IV Trees
along yellow brick roads
into medicated corridors
where everything is amuck
and playing it as it lays is out to lunch . . .
Cats hawk BOGOs for home-schoolers
embarking on a journey
into the heart of darkness
and disorientation . . .
the body . . . at six degrees of separation
retreats . . . curbside . . .
as tailors expand waistlines in wastelands
where fat is a conspiracy theory
disguised as a friend . . .
The last person you socially distanced
slipped out of town
with a new face
and was later spotted
on a gurney
crusted in salt
accessing redactions with a smartphone . . .
Can you imagine? . . . Yes, you can . . .
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| Mia Wasikowska |