As we bump up the Oregon Trail of
your infinite driveway I say plz 🙂
tell me the story of the first goths you met:
again the fables of those noble early adopters
bravely applying eyeliner in high wind
a Tamagotchi washing up on the shore
of a future of soft landings on this path
littered with mongrel-Saxons where
Losing My Religion is always playing in a driverless car
I tell you the myth of the boy who
[not wanting to wear a medical alert bracelet]
had TYPE 2 DIABETES tattooed on his forearm in Century Gothic
and we laugh like soft cattle, same but different as ever
on these dusk-heavy and slack days when
even Teju Cole writing about Radiohead reads like Clickhole
the aircon is on in the driverless car
and I am changing your Instagram handle to lindberghbaby
we tell ourselves it’s important to keep beginning
the bright light the old road
Alex Griffin is a researcher and tutor from Kenwick, WA. You can find his work at Cordite, Overland, the Sydney Morning Herald, Going Down Swinging, Swampland and others.
