Dangerous Security

You wilted in suburbia

And left your pretty petals

On the lowest shelf.

Your daily diet

Of your fear

And your own heartstrings

Rendered you

Wasting,

Thinner,

Skinny.

Soon, you'll only

Have your bones

And your anxiety

To feed upon.

You melted in hysteria,

A glacier lesser every second.

I no longer

Rouse my sympathies

For people

Burning down

Themselves

Into toxic puddles

Soaking their tamed front lawns.

I will still enjoy

Your sweetest savor

As I exit swiftly

From the middle

Of the cul-de-sac

Of xeroxed housing.

- 6/12/25