You are living 

under late stage 

decrepit capitalism 

and under the scrutiny of 

a digital panopticon and 

pulled in thousands of 

different directions 

by rules that 

were never 

codified 

or just 

or sane

or reasonable 

You are not crazy. 

You have a raw lonely little 

monkey brain that’s got 

some goddamn 

limitations 

given that we 

never updated our threat 

systems or ever really expected 

to know so very goddamn much about 

a world so very big and so goddamn scary. 

Of course you don’t feel like you’re enough, 

there are entities that long precede you 

that have a shifting chomping maw

of long ago applied human labor 

that are for sure awful terribly 

invested in making sure

you don’t believe  

that you’re 

enough. 

You must

care for the meat,

care for the monkey,

care for the lost sad

little soul that is

calling out for 

recognition. 

Be here, 

get to flow. 

Return to self. 

Express your art.