YET

YET

looks like
someone without
a shred of consideration
took a jackhammer
to my face

someone
sane and rational
and together
so unlike me
my polar opposite
nothing there scrambled,
messed up, Dionysian,
entropic,
   running on fumes
and cosmic radiation
quantum crazy, ever
and forever
in superposition, massively
entangled
    all over the place

so read these lines, thick
as, ley lines, electromagnetic
with worry
      what life does to
you when
what you were told was
sustenance could
not
  have been more venomous
toxic breakfast, lunch,
dinner
    and supper

stamped, branded, sealed,
as is
    the new zeitgeist

everything both
inside and outside
granular, grainy
and against the grain

up close
and personal
with serious gravity,
higgs bosun
false vacuum
strangelet particles and
third law
of thermodynamics

my features
    so convoluted and contorted
look like they were sawn
into shape
from within
      whacked with
a cold chisel, attacked
to try for symmetry by a
fine-toothed jig

life pounded out of me
to get me
regulation tenderized

unadulterated SF dystopia
we just haven’t noticed yet