Danger Kit

caffeine approaches the landing of a stairwell
where memory contracts and expands
choking my heart and eating my mind

warheads annhiliate clean paper
installing armor on a daisy

I’m unshowered in the expectation of 90’s apparel
A transparent baggy
Wanderer of coat racks, daydream the cool rebuttal
Rehearse springy scenes with crushes
Lament rewrites with best friends
Adolescent royalty you become
In the high stakes nightlife of a shopping mall

When one atomizes space around, the chamber readies
To inherit haste plus force
With mundanity and catch up mechanisms
From idle root, stick of dynamite on a stem
Force and haste and puppy dog tails
Botched encounters, alarms
Erosion
Nowhere and all where, everywhere
Smooches and embraces and lifetimes collide
In near altitude right above
Drenching a maze of platforms and dead ends
You are in it
You are then and now and believing
Little worn, little safe, ever a proud dimensional choice
Let this compromise be formed without influence
Dawn, birth
Strength in jade, dig in, hold the line
Life is too short for instruction manuals