Not Art

by anxiousmove · 06/12/2025
Published 06/12/2025 14:02

It’s not a ghost or a floating dance.

It’s high-density polyethylene snagged

on a rusted wire fence, by chance,

looking like something the cat dragged.


It flaps like a wet, translucent lung

against the gray and winter mud.

I remember when the lie was sung

about beauty being in the blood


of garbage. But it’s just a skin,

a shredded mess that won't decay.

It’s the hollow sound of coming in

and having nothing left to say.

#artificiality #consumer culture #environmental #existential emptiness #urban decay

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