Do You Know What Love Is? (a poem)

The mesh—
tying into everything,
even your enemies.
We are all having the conversation.
That’s for damn sure.

But what now?

Pseudo-events,
consent manufactured in filters—
thalamic disregulation,
cascades, spreadsheets,
the blue screen of death
stepping into my mind.

A worm buried
in invisible constructs,
corrupted, sunk deep.

I only want,
alongside the other,
to rot together.

I’m so sorry.