Lift the arm
To accomplish basic tasks
And let the right hand
Ignore what the left is doing.
Let it indulge its deepest desires
To claw a piece of happiness
from between the couch cushions
While the right scrounges for quarters
To buy another vape pen, turn the living room into the parlor of smoke where decisions are made.
Where futures are broken and sliced up and taken apart for fingernail filings.
Let the left feast on old, hard candy. A grape-turned-raisin. Forgotten indulgences.
A momentary taste of sweetness.
Before it is put to work.
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