budget cuts

✮⋆ For someone with no cash flow, I'm in surprisingly good spirits–and getting a lot of writing done! Silver linings abound.

budget cuts

I’m short on rent.

know all too well

who’s to blame—

damn, that avocado toast!

at this point, what’s even left

to cut? suppose I turn that red ink back

on myself and slash

at the stomach. cross my fingers

and hope

the buccal fat holding my cheekbones

hostage is the first to go.

focus 

what about the eyes?—of course!

I can do without

those. forego the check-ups

and pharmaceuticals. skip a year and pray

I wasn’t supposed to get a pap.

I’ll welcome the cramps back

to my thighs and call it

womanhood. sync up with the moon

for the hell

of it.

I mean, who knows

how long we’ll still have

the avocados.