Literature
IV. You wanna know what Mona Lisa's smiling about?
Mona’s sitting there on the bus, right
+ it’s like
ok,
what are you smiling at,
like, why’s your Monday morning lookin so much better than mine, girl?
+ she’s all like:
I’ve been walking through this river for a month
and all I can see is the milky way
above me, through the trees’
leaves and their trunks, even
the river has slow warm
galaxies and black
holes and pulsars swirling
around my calves like
I’m here.
When I dip my fingers in
I get dawn all over them
like the light already spidering
up
my ankles
and my calves are glowing,
and my femurs
have started now too.
I can fee