Placemat Meditation

So I sit and the artificial boneless sounds that emanate from speakers nearby harmonize in a strange way with the polyester slacks of the hostess altogether dim and almost surreal in its devoid atmosphere of beige and an indescribable pink of a burgundy mauve

Chandeliers, the girl sings what are you hoping for? and I ask how can money be so all-controlling or seemingly omnipresent and why? Working indentured to a landlord grocery store shopping mall world

I can’t breathe, in your hair is the smell of carbon dioxide it’s killing me to look at you, this atmosphere has burned your skin You look alive, rolling, swilling, plummeting, choking I’m the girl who’s given up hoping you once knew what I thought about you it’s coming through now, coming true the same way you love me I remember you love me

Hordes of people walking, feeling so oppressed by heat and hordes of people walking dirty streets I can see the trees, I can feel the forest standing on my feet I call here, it’s all of us standing in the grass

This too shall pass, this too shall pass earth mission power control test hold patern flight wall projector screen test a call, this too shall fall too shall fall and it’s all in a day all in the way you hear my feelings

Tall, it’s a mountain to play, we’ll be there in a day it's a memory play, all the way Stop ‘til you want to start, it’s the frozen part this is