Almost Dead
I am not that attached
to the photograph.
Capturing a moment in time
with a fake laugh.
“Hold this pose.
Don’t worry,
we’ll edit your nose”
With the right lighting
anyone can fake a shine.
Playing pretend
to try to capture a moment in time.
“Stand like this.
Chin up.
It’s not a joke, Chet -
so shut the fuck up”
“Sit still -
and open your eyes.”
“Well,
Why?
All of these photographs
just feel like lies.
We cannot capture time.”
“We’ll use this filter here.
And make it clearer there.
We’ll blur this out,
and distort reality -
just to make ourselves
feel a little happy.”
Let’s all distort reality,
so we can try to feel happy -
and we’ll all pretend
like we don’t know
what we are doing.
We won’t see
the paths we are choosing.
When everything lives in the individual head
then reality is already
almost dead.
-C.H.