dre poetic: words by adrien salazar

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the first day

waking into eight hour work days
flung into post-grad
hung over with the bitter taste of
matcha called
every question
matters

like hand to me
a fifty pound bag of rice
jasmine and tea
and the caffeine excites me

what next

plastics
my uncle says
plastics

this future talk
all this
poetry
sustains me
every word

every choice
like every grain of rice
in a rice shortage

reading tea leaves
into powder
dust strewn into air

tomorrow
plastics and

today is only
the first day

edited: 06/23/08