My Week Illustrated

It’s Monday so legally you can’t sleep in

you grab your toothbrush with the bristles layed like a crop circle and your

empty tube of toothpaste that’s merely a prop to prompt the rhythm and it’s

12pm and it’s

4pm and it’s

ok time to fucking function now and it’s *jump cuts*

It’s Tuesday so legally you can’t smile

you wake standing in your bathroom with your teeth in the sink *clink clink*

and i’m thinking of You

on the train and on the bus

and there’s a big circle around you where people don’t go,

and there’s a big circle around them where you don’t go, because it would be illegal.

you’re hungry but you can’t go to the counter because you’ve got no teeth,

and you didn’t pack lunch because 

i can’t get You out of my head even tho i’ve never had You in my arms

and you’ve walked into church without memorising the prayer and that’s why you’re going to jail on

It’s Wednesday so legally you can’t remember this day

It’s Thursday so legally you can’t use the phone

you keep it on silent because the noise god the noise

i bet you’re thinking oh you miss the call because it’s on silent

no - i don’t miss the call, because i can’t leave my phone behind - i take it with me and feel the buzzing of death and i don’t answer it anyway because that’s illegal!

it’s red dots and 

it’s blue dots and 

red squares and 

5 days ago you missed a friend reaching out to you on the night that they

It’s Friday so legally you’re going to feel better today

just kidding, that’s not how it works

It’s Saturday so legally you’re going to do your homework today

but wouldn’t today be even better if you just

grabbed your toothbrush with the bristles layed like a crop circle and your

toothpaste with nearly no toothpaste in it and it’s 

12pm and it’s

4pm and it’s

blood in the sink with the teeth *clink clink*

It’s Sunday so legally you’re going end this poem because it can’t be longer than one page

but you could go on

because it’s as if it has no end

Poem by Jackson Machado

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This article appeared in the The Gavel #1 ‘The Among Us Issue’ (2021) Publication