Things to be Anxious About
my father’s heart / my grandfather’s brain / the corpse of a dead bird crushed under my shoes / nuclear war / dead car battery / credit card payment / tariffs / fascism / what will I wear to the bar tonight / do I have enough money for the bar tonight / should I really be going to the bar tonight? / my father’s lungs / my mothers lungs / my lungs / why am I still single / should I be on anxiety meds? / should I be on depression meds? / gotta clean the room / gotta go to work / get some sleep / my father’s heart / my grandfather’s brain / the corpse of a dead bird crushed underneath my shoes like cheap plastic
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Love the cycle back around here
this really speaks to me and the repetition at the end is so telling of the never ending cycle of anxiety. very well done.
This is very well done – lots of energy and things many of us can relate to.
love the way the list appearing in paragraph rather than list form makes it more urgent