You Explain Austin to Me via Instagram
His frappuccino heartache and stuff.
The sun setting boring again.
Some band, a lame IPA, and more BBQ shit.
You confess to forgetting what pleasure means.
The sun setting on Starbucks.
Neighborhood shopping in a neighborhood
where it’s cool to live, which means most people
live in some editorial of deleted space.
Not being able to afford anything
in 20 or 30 different photos.
The price of a single jalapeno.
Another apartment. A huge crane.
Suburbia is misery’s head
ache. Dinner with the parents.
He cries Titos in the driveway.
It never rains.
You win the + lottery with a pregnancy test
and move, happily, to Toledo.
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This paints the image of suburban misery so well. I like “most people/ live in some editorial of deleted space,” and the twist ending with the plus sign included.
Agree with Chelsie.
Love:
live in some editorial of deleted space.
I love this! I really like the last couplet. It invites another poem about that move to Toledo. I like how you insperse swear words. It feels like a suburban thing to do. The title works, too!
This is funny. Toledo ugh!
This one got me: “He cries Titos in the driveway.
It never rains.”
& “deleted space”
So. So good. Also Toledo (cringe)