#outside brain

this is an open letter to explain myself to the finer folk to uphold my kind to the higher minds one refrain: outside brain

shook by the stares, I left too soon lost the bet, can’t read the room the edges of the curtains glare in the stagnant air

from a mineshaft to a crawlspace across a bed of nails and broken glass from a jump scare to a catwalk on a tightrope over burning ash against the grain: outside brain

I called up the trophy store asked what things were going for said I didn’t qualify if I left my name they’d try to write an open letter to explain myself to the finer folks to uphold my kind to the higher minds what remains: outside brain

the panic of a blown-out fuse I can’t take much more bad news sitting in this busted chair headstrong and unprepared