i miss the tarot of my youth
the dribbling rain and ruin of my youthful cities
being safe in a crowd
scared at a bus stop but making it home OK
to my toothbrush
my mattress
and my stupid roommates
i miss drinking for drinkings sake
and typing for typings sake
and being devastated because i was not a genius
i miss not being able to delete
script
sort
auto-complete
undo
and change my mind
a million times
before ultimately giving up—
how pointless all this is
i miss the old slow dumb
computers—having to print
a hard copy
just to see
what my hands and eyes and groin
had wrought
i miss
not having
(now that we all don’t probably have one other than a nightmare)
a future
and laughing off a cliff like a god damned fool