Burning bushes pop across a screen

Threads of prayers between watch duty-app notifications

Evacuate Hollyweird

Gridlocked in sparks of fear, an arsonist's wet dream

Rolling down Runyon Canyon

Weather in the mind

Santa Ana's hands shivering against the window

Shattered winds, ash on the lung, a sky of blazing breath

A flame on the distance looking back, the hue of cough

The scent of tickling sneeze, it has not rained, it has not rained

Dry as silence in the dragon's mouth, boulevards between capitalism's teeth

A neon cotton candy cloud hovers over Koreatown buildings at midnight

Hungry for water, hungry for water

A rusted sunset, some say smart meters

Directed energy weapons or Edison powerlines are to blame

An oligarch's impending inauguration

The mayor's in Ghana for dutty December

Neoliberal Americans in Africa on the rise

From Palisades to Palestine

An actress compares the L.A. oceanfront to Gaza

Never mentions the Rafah border

The cut off of two thousand aid trucks

Neglects to mention body bags, rubble or the Israeli snipers aimed at children

But everyone's donating their wardrobe to people without closets

Can a millionaire be homeless?

All of a sudden we know the meaning of community

All of a sudden the spirit of giving is in the air

The people kindle around the flame

Nothing like disaster to shock a heart into beating

The feel-good volunteers did reiki before they dropped off outfits for people with no events to attend

Skid Row knows how to read the room-less

The undocumented avoid handouts framed in the halls of fascism

To be on house arrest with no house

Just arrested

Everyone's worried about clean air

HEPA can't filter this corruption, maybe

Maybe socialism is on its way

Look at us, look at us who took the breeze for granted

Running faucet of dreams, mutual aid

Octavia Butler newscasting premonitions from a gravesite in Altadena

The ghosts of consequence stain the air

What's the insurance policy for chickens coming home to roost?

What's the insurance policy for chickens coming home to roost?

Dumpster diving

The nudge that brings us to kneel

Everyone is living their life on layaway

Buy now, pay later

Kidnapped by masked, ice-cold blooded agents

SOS formation of bodies near the Everglades, gullible, low frequency

No research, no risk taking

Four drunk travelers with bloodshot eyes sip on sweating beer cans just off the corner

Waiting out the downtown protests

A trans woman in a burgundy crop top with yellow geometric sunglasses and an ivory umbrella shielding the sun

Sips on iced tea from her straw

The universe is universing

The tow truck tricksters try to boost the tires of the people

Pawns pedaling for the state

Every job, every job can be undone by the will of the worker who sees fit

To serve a good greater than petty personal pocket delusions

Troops are everywhere

A country torn apart doom scrolling debris

The "What can you do for me, Cashapp me in my caption, get over, get ahead culture, open tabs" generation

In the echo chambers of greed

A bunch of individuals who want to go viral over commentary, all caps baby boomer text threads

No spine having ****

Dumb as doorknobs

When people show you who they are

Believe them