Same Same

Self portrait, 2020

I am not the same.

You are not the same.

We are not the same.

Thing will never.

Be .

The same.

.

But they never are.

.

Bodies change, lives change, social mores change, tides change.

.

Many will try to convince you that it can be as it was.

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Your government namely.

Jump back on the wheel.

Everything will be ok if

You’re ready at the starting block for the gun.

You just dive headfirst into

that grind

And please don’t look at what we’ve been doing while you

were scraping your life off the floor.

Don’t seek the same.

It’s not there

And you will waste your previous little energy and time

In that futile search.

.

Things will never be the same.

But they never are.