10. Pablo Neruda Interrogates Me About What We Are Doing Now That The Pandemic Is "Over"

My grades went up when math started tossing
letters between numbers and trying to solve for shapes

I have a hard time believing people who tell me the world
is a different shade of bullshit than the one I'm looking at

I was born in a green month that borders on blue
I think swimming will heal me before running

I don't think it's a coincidence that I experimented with colored text
the same years I experimented with hallucinogenics Now I don't even use ibuprofen

Now that the world is pretending it's ok to be feral again
I see every snow clutched running river as a bug zapper

I keep making the same plans with friends
who aren't interested in making plans with me anymore

I don't know if this means they have moved beyond me
​or if it is time for me to move beyond them.