CW: death and suicidal ideation mentions

roll with the radio static a mile or more empty
minded,
painted with the smell of cigarette stink¹, hand that cut me off out the window metonymizing, knuckles to nails to embered monotony,
exterior air dousing
for water, for anything
through empty
stations
of ads and sad, sad songs and talk shows²,
and shouldn’t it be illegal for the atmosphere to be this empty?
filled in not with the fuel of sound i need to blot out how bad the beaded
water is, anything is
so hot,
how many people lie the way they do
beneath overpasses and pass over Regions Made Uninhabitable by Global Warning, more at 9:00

¹i can’t make you smell it if you haven’t,
gravel smelling, drandma slaying,
dry smoke to lungy tar like bank interest piling
up the way pennies do

²settle for Pearl Jam but i’d take
a tune that wants to die
down less than the way i do