the old man shoots an X
on the government tanked on his orchard.
he waits for retribution
just as justice waits for him.
*
i don't think we were banished from eden.
i think we walked out bored of its purity.
there were many things there but not love.
we walked out of eden, i think, for love,
and so god is our first ex,
because we didn't believe in him,
and we've been trying to move on ever since.
*
when his body drooped and began to rot
jesus looked like a flag of flesh
that was crossing out the cross itself.
when the boy, drunk on saffron, climbs up
the church to vandalise it, he looks like a cross
of flesh that has been turned into a flag of excommunication.
*
you were my world but now you're my ex.
if you tilt the gridlines on the map
you'll see the world for what it is:
a web of Xs, exes, and excess,
on a gathering of water and dust.
~ ajay
2/12/2024
