Is it possible to shower in 2026
without thinking about data centers
or dried up watersheds
or the ocean
or folks in my own state
in my own county
who struggle for access to clean water?

It feels luxurious—
hot cascade scalding off the grime,
soap bubbling up across my skin,
everything circling the drain as I try
to enjoy the sensation of getting clean, 
fingers pruning up
just as I turn off the stream.

I pause to consider
what it means to have water
at the flick of a faucet
running right into my house
to sinks and tubs and toilets.
How relatively new it is in human history
how quick we got used to it
how quick it could go away.

And in too many places, it already has.