Category: Altered States

She had requestrd to not use vinegar
Because her sinuses reacted, swelling

Counter arguments kept coming to where
When she got home, it was in two rooms

Feeling her chest clench and a migraine,
She cried out, “I asked you not to use it!”

To defensive replies of the other saying
They could barely smell it, devalidating

Whereupon her exhaustion tipped off into
Hysterical internal reaction to gaslighting

And she fled the scene to avoid
Shiftng into meltdown conflict.

In a high-wire balance act
How can one be assisted?

“Three dragging me back.”

“What’s my focus today?

Yet another emergency?

I keep getting disrupted.”

“I gotta get a grip.”

“I am done with trying to jump through extra hoops.”

“Went from crying to adventure to limping home while holding my back, satisfied.”

Turns out the fireworks
Were down by the river

Thinking I’d be just a stranger
Another emerges beside me

Talking about D.C. lights and fires
Roof-popping head level smoking

Suddenly added mortars
Are boom-firing behind us

He warns so we hunch-cover ears
And my kidneys ache from blasts

Exploding overhead so close that
Flaming-char chunks are evident

Pummeling between me and others
Could’ve set fire to a child’s blanket

A low-set car contributes atmosphere
Playing gang-bangin’ music – hilarious

Got the full emersive 3–D experience
Others regroup and we exit delirious

It is difficult to relax
When one phrase

Could spin us into
Entirely new realities

To be other than we are
To hide that we’re human

I can’t do anything else
But finish today’s work

A point of coming here
Is to reclaim myself
As I lose myself
Repeatedly

—-

(Play alternative re “means to an end”)

I ran errands today
Hopefully worthy
Certainly many

“Looks like another bill got reactivated without my authorization to autowithdraw as the bill has exponentially increased while removing services and is attemoting to hit the wrong bank.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!”

“You’re not a model, you’re a warrior.”

(Mirror love)

“Have I accomplished anything?”

(Title ref to air sign, content ignoring many achievements)