POWER DREAM

sulking into the function
you presumably at the helm but it’s a hologram
once i made it into the room diamond eyes catches me 
off guard, we lock in, clarifying that your posture is far less powerful 
than I’ve been preparing for, you with your maiden girlfriend clinging
to your arm, no you to hers, her belled sleeve actually, she’s making edits 
to the menu in calligraphy birds flutter  landing on her lacy shoulder pads 
there’s all this cornflower smoke surrounding you guys it smells like the bad
incense from the 90s which you’ve just discovered, late in life and in the arc
of the world, because her spiritual family is taking you in and teaching you
about animism, which you devoutly absorb deriving from a golden retriever
catch on the beach situation
but diamond eyes who culls dead-stock specialty sportswear and sells it online
he’s gonna take me out with that money, spaghetti dinner, charisma reigns supreme
in this battle, and as i mentioned, we lock in