Walmart Just Up and Left Chicago Too
if you love something let it go is the old adage
it was the other day and I was thinking about how New Orleans ain’t sank yet and how Mississippi is still muddy, but bottled water don’t make good wine and no one is California dreaming anymore, no one knows where Jesus is now, bored and anxious, no more library cards, no one to impress upon, even snuff films have lost the shock appeal, lock, stock and barrel, desensitized stately sterile and stoic, centralized, feral intellectual, murder porn is reality tv, the TikTok around the clock, Snapchatted adulterations with the next PlayStation’s next replacement while MSG ain’t a thing anymore but gluten is free from all the stereotypes, perfecting camel toe while we wait on tattoo removal parlors, drive-thru dermatology like covid tests in parking lots and even more new kinds of cancer
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William S. Tribell is an American poet, writing a lot about life, love and tragedy because that’s what he’s got to work with.
