Hurricane season / The real Disney villain?

Walt Disney slaps the inner swamp face of Orlando across the cheek
“I made you beautiful dammit”
“I gave you meaning”

She reaches for the ocean just out of grasp
“I just want my wetlands back”
b/c Orlando remembers what she once was

& so a man inseminated the earth
& mother proved all that can be imagined
can be actual

she clears a spot for Pooh Bears
and EPCOTs

the rest simply follows.

Notes on radical honesty

I would tweet this but I’m a bigger person now

A means to escape responsibility,
posting on a Twitter feed
to eschew vul    ner    a    bil    it    y,
showing hole, swallowed shame,
going months without a signal:

I am disgusting, I embrace your revulsion,
please excuse my brief hiatus: It’s unsustainable.

Metaphor as metaphor as my life, displayed on my screen.
Free association as meditation; Reality as a meme, manifested into being.

None of the hard work
but all of the glory.

Changing perspective
and only seeing the trees.

II.

Her Tweets read like poems,
half-absurd, fully resonant,
Cyberspace confessionals
may you release me of my sins.

She is honest to a fault,
unabsolved, pressing send from
a Nissan passenger seat

and she sends a tweet about that too
as if that makes up for future crimes
as if knowledge is acknowledge
is absolution