pick a tomato from the rustic wooden box inside the grocery store

Hold it up close so I can see the dot of mold upon the skin a bit more, mold to the core

Try not to panic

A vision has come to me

Mind of an addict

Hyperfluorescency

Like a tornado on a predetermined path towards a trailer park lot

I can feel the wings of death wrapping around me, all the meat's gonna rot, the lettuce is hot

A brush of feathers

Linoleum shines through me

A kind of weather

Hyperfluorescency

I had a panic attack

inside a grocery store

I give permission for you to laugh at me

Tried to run out the back

Took off my cool leather jacket

I got that rock star apathy

Cool guy! Hahahahahahaha

I got that rock star apathy

Cool guy! hahahahahahaha

Hyperfluores-es-escency

look at those cans

i say to myself i say to my shelf

each one a marvel of modern engineering

thousands and thousands of hands and minds have touched them, moved them from factory to plane to truck to deliver into my mouth a

vegetable

that i once would have pulled from the ground

a vast machine designed to care for me

another sexy little american paperclip

in the beginning there was just a couple guys who pulled us out of the mud

territorial expansion nation building and a gallon of blood, it had to be done

now there’s aluminum mines across the sea

to bring aluminum cans to you and me

and now I’m free

to burst my brain until i’ve fixed this world

but please forgive me

it’s the only way i know how to fix myself

and until then the floor is a good place to be. i am safe here on the floor

I I I—

I had a panic attack

inside a grocery store

I give permission for you to laugh at me

couldn't get out the back

Laid on the floor in the freezer section

and tried to circle breathe

Oh yeah! Alright!

I got that rock star apathy

Cool guy! Sprinting out the front of the store

hyperfluoress-ess-escency

Check out that fast guy's sunglasses!