45. expanding my brand

(by kent christensen via lanny quarles on fb)

"I was born in the dark and the rain, and I got away."

In the future there will be no having or getting, only the momentary granting of permissions; & you will pay & pay for these--joined, of course, to a total system of social credit, so that for those with high credit, permissions are easy, but for those with low credit, not easy, or else impossible.

heart-shaped balloons on the graves
in the afternoon sun
woozy with post-nap brain
meanings felt through boxing gloves
lost in the rain in Cancun
& it's Valentine's day
Sparrowkiller's Waterloo
all that legend down the drain
those whom the gods destroy
in the afternoon sun

One for whom confusing things are simple but simple things are confusing. Like a pigeon whose head bobs as it walks. Does it matter that this bobbing is the motion of the world? Living on a planet a weathervane, pointing the wind. Train station at 7 AM.

"The idea of a foreign or alien past that is as convincing as it is manufactured is what separates good vaporwave from bad vaporwave, and defines the desired effect of the aesthetics of the genre."