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okay
at the ticket desk i paid to become unsure
got a stamp on my wrist like a cultural cure
the first room breathed in climate controlled despair
even the exit sign looked curated up there
a black dot held court on a wall too clean
with the confidence of rent I have never seen
the plaque said the aria of silence in chrome
materials dust acrylic grant and alone
i whispered devastating because dot felt rude
then nodded at dust like it had been peer reviewed
my cardigan took tenure in the overlit hall
i outsourced my panic to a stare at the wall
my face kept buffering by the donor collection
wearing borrowed depth in museum condition
i adjust my glasses let one sigh pass through
like my brain just found funding it never knew
i nod like i get it i squint like a priest
guarding a thought that was legally deceased
i stand by a rope around negative space
with a thrift store mfa taped to my face
everybody gasps like the ceiling forgave
i whisper texture and try to behave
i don’t know what moved me
but I’m moving toward the door
art is pain
and my feet are sore
i spent ten minutes with a cup on the floor
a cracked clear chalice by gallery four
the wall text said polymer grief in checkout vernacular
a beverage adjacent wound in the post consumer secular
i saw municipal longing in the bent plastic lip
the ontology of takeout in a half dead drip
then the janitor came with a cart and a sneeze
performed custodial negation with professional ease
my transcendence made a clunk in the trash
i opened the catalog to survive the crash
page forty nine liminal residue and hygienic power
page fifty please exit the building in the next half hour
Now the fire alarm is screaming above
could be danger could be institutional love
do i flee with the crowd or remain with the form
is the stairwell critique or only not warm
i nod like i get it i squint like a priest
guarding a thought that was legally deceased
i stand by a rope around negative space
with a thrift store mfa taped to my face
everybody gasps like the ceiling forgave
i whisper texture and try to behave
i don’t know what moved me
but I’m moving toward the door
art is pain
and my feet are sore
the artist says the answer is don’t ask why
so I write that down like a very evolved guy
then I see the price tag six zeros in line
my student debt salutes from the back of my mind
if I faint near the exit
does the sweat need a label
wait
am i nervous
or curated
i nod like i lived it i squint like a saint
guarding a feeling i definitely ain’t
i stand by the rope while my spirit goes numb
like maybe the masterpiece is me standing dumb
everybody gasps like the ceiling just bled
i whisper context with nothing in my head
i don’t know what changed me
but i’m buying from the store
art is pain
and my feet are sore
leaving through the gift shop financially stunned
postcard in my hand like evidence of fun
posting to the gram this really spoke to me
hashtag inspiration hashtag aesthetic hashtag spirituallyfree
but actually distressed in a very clean font
pretending i wanted the silence i got
next time i’m going drive thru where the vision is clear
at least a double cheeseburger is something i can revere
i understand the layers
pickle
cheese
fear
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