I Would Do Anything to Get Entertained

When I am too high for cellular data yet too low for inflight wifi,

I think about things that delight me:

ergonomic chairs, blue beer, sleepwalking, and the coconut water package

which smells like a phantasmic hotel.

When the plane turns on the seatbelt sign, clasps of metal excite me with their potential

to ensure security through captivation.

As mild, purple lights diffuse the cabin,

I believe that we are in urgent need of thorough redefinitions.

Such as how sighing activates hope,

or that hatred should be neutral like the rain.

More obviously, life is not a box of chocolates

but endless application forms.

When seeking immediate stimulation, I would stare at a person or a character

long enough that suddenly, everything is peeled!

If time functions like a never-ending slide,

do our feelings of an experience create a tunnel or a room?

I occupy the toilet knowing

that splendid things happen in a locked pod with a full mirror.

With my feet holding onto the trembling floor during a turbulence,

I recall all my attempted ways to live toward sensation–

hovering my palm over the candlelight, wearing a fur vest over a silk blouse,

and putting my cheeks against the cold window when the wheels touch the ground.

Species

It is believed anyone who has never own an umbrella can be trusted

For their absolute faith in “So what?” and “Next!”

They see a certain gloom in the creation of solutions like

Thunderstorms and sealed windows, night and lying flat, destinations and vehicles

So instead of telling people to wear gloves before reaching the oven, they say:

“Put your toes in first to test the heat.”

Most others keep inventing ways to experience satisfaction—

Condensing detergents into a sheet of paper and frying food with depressed air.

Yet, they are more invested in the not-doing,

in the strolling through aisles of kettles and canned fruits,

Or the sitting still at a hospital lobby, listening to voices not as content but purely vibrations

They never understand how physicists prove that running in the rain exposes one to more raindrops

the goodness of efforts have long been promised through textbooks

But to them, life should be a roulette with each throw careless like a lost feather.

The growing exhaustion brought by knowledge lead them to work away

from comprehension towards a living of lesser volume, mimicking

a long-standing telegraph pole, witnessing without memories.