Whole Foods Breakdowns: A Saga

monochromatic sentences

are where i like to spend my time

the kind you read 8 times over

and you think you might feel something

but you arent sure where or what even

and so you read on, you forget about the sentence

and then the feeling all together

but then one day

many months or years later

your body goes -ah ha!- and suddenly

you are brought back to the sentence

but this time you know

where and what and why and when and how

so then you try to tell somebody about what you have learned

to save them the time

but they tell you its not appropriate

to talk to strangers about existentialism at 9 am

in the line up at Whole Foods

so you take your cashews and your hard earned wisdom home with you

you tell yourself that keeping! thoughts! to! yourself!

is a form of actualization

and its something you should work on

but then you call your mom

because you’re only 25 for pete’s sake

and you’ve got the rest of your life

to be actualized