Late-summer Party at Fratboy Dwelling, 2015

Glossy-eyed children taste toxin-doctored water from plastic red cups

as popular hits of the day intertwine with impure intentions and blind approbation
for strangersobscured within the cherry-colored lenses of Dionysiuss shroud.
A languid form stumbles though an ocean of slurred words and victorious howls
Into a water room with four walls, a broken door, and a single reflective glass, sounds of the
century now low and intertwined with the domestic petting zoo steadily beating against the door
Still broken.
Tired eyes through orbital vision and a weary process of cognitive recognition
Finds within the glass a conception of self, foreign to the observer and comically out of place.
Segmented ideas find meaning in convoluted streams of thought as the spoken word
Is devalued and meaning is limited to fain attempts to bum a smoke, bro.
Radiating self-righteous belligerence and misattributed
Bravadothe two-dimensional protagonist clumsily plunders the kitchen
for processed sugar bars and handfuls of stale Wonderbread
before projecting discarded toxins into the potted plant near the high-traffic doorway while
snapback youth formulate attributable hashtags and millennial responses to
a situation typical to the time of uncertainty and blissful absence.
Come morning, well eat scrambled eggs in sunlight
And romanticize about a Kodak experience, now elapsed by a self- more stringent.