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“Offer From Flatiron Health”

Email subject reads.

Desolate Middle-Aged (once cute) woman has a celebratory moment with herself and her 2 eggs and tomatoes

She seems Healthy, low risk, this startup will embrace her and they will quickly learn she will give all of her life to this company. They will abuse it and push her to the brink of exhaustion and she will never stop telling herself: “this is a startup!”

She eats the bread she wasn’t going to eat

Shes googles Whitney Museum and will even maybe have a cocktail in the cafe there. She will think of her big moment.

The other side of the window I wait

Everyone likes red doors
Everyone looks at pink cars
Chefs with foreign accents
Waiters with good looks

Assymetrical street grids
Restaurants with home furnishings
Strangers with odd clothing
Men without direction

Everyone hates power
But loves going to the movies,
Taking vacations and buying phones

No wants the bustle but wants the music
Afraid of danger but open to delight.

The biggest pond has the most fish
And the smallest ones are dying, one by one, as all is eaten

Expert of the Mundane:

Click Click Slash

Brush Brush Push

Remember to save up for your next big hair-do

The one you saw on the internet

In between Click 48 and Slash 24

It makes you look nicer

When no one thought it would

Because no one thought about it

But I did

Your lover Jeremy

And not even your kids because you don’t have any, even though people expect you to, expect you to eat at Olive Garden, shop at Wal Mart, and work there.

And you don’t even do that many Opioids, only in summertime, while watching the fireflies, better than anywhere you’d ever heard of, painting or algorithmic ad..

Your own serenity, isn’t recorded but traversed,

It often comes to you in this mundane environment where you have great expertise, and where you wonder about those Whores of the Exotic, who you dream about while they dream about you.