Ozone-Free

 1 You do not know me if you use my warmth to heat your fingertips

without grasping the pain that lit the spark in the first place

2 Fossil fuels are running out because we used them like godgivens self replenishing faster than the digestion* of greed. We were mistaken.       (*indigestion)

3 Human is synonymous to naive. People must believe. Wasn’t the wisdom of Silenus written down with the hand of a man? Could be wrong. Pain can feel/be good. Good is empty.

3.5 Confuses mutual chaos for connection

Autocorrects love then leaves error

4 Requires timers, prescriptions, snow suits, punch codes,

dog food, arms length and proximity and repellant glue to continue the cycle

5 Because emotion isn’t real/doesn’t matter/can’t be used like the show-dog of logic, ‘cold hard facts’

Because of what we endured and didn’t get

Because we don’t trust language

Because language is deceiving

Because our species has forgotten transparency

6 Once asked to sleep inside me

The optometrist projects an image of my cornea

“by 2050 everyone will have problems seeing” my optic nerve

empty, aching reverts

The residue: all that is conscious wears out. The unconscious

flooding from a single hole in the ground

A million cicadas fly free self-combusting firecrackers

below the ozone-free sun