bliss bliss, bliss

you ever see a girl so pretty you regret not having met her way way way waaaay earlier in her life like while the two of you were in middle or high school and her face would constantly breakdown in rashes & acne & blisters and you her servant her lover her knight would bite her pimples pop her blisters and suck the bitter water out and swallow like they look so needy and desperate by divine design why wouldn’t you youd lick her salty bleeding wounds so theyll heal right after and her face won’t be permanently hurt and scarred. it's better than sex. la la la microplastics girl who wraps her food in aluminums and pours piping hot coffee into styrofoam cups to take to school every day she chews on erasers and sleeps in polyester beds nested in polyester blankets with polyester faux replication wool she drinks no juice juices off cartoons with wet dripping ink smudged on her paws her syrup sucrose candies are perforated by leads seeped in from the paper-thin wrappers forever chemicals she tried to eat well teflon-plastered knives jag into the plastic cutlery she softens and evens the scratches why sanding them out with a tin metal sponge li worry our children will rattle like maracas once they’re in my hands