Luis Meléndez’s Still Life (1771)

Costa Rica

Let your priorities evolve

You can’t clean everything

Learn not to cope

Feel worse about suffering in paradise

You should know almond butter

Be at the convergence of artificial flying objects

Why would you want to be a Venn diagram?

Clean up your dog’s feces

You piece of shit

Act even louder if possible

Eat Pizza Hut

Forever 12

Wordle

Give up on your family

Lay in bed all day

Make up stories about your well-being

Let the salsa open up your eyes (and nostrils)

Continue to smoke weed in sober living

It’s legal now

Never mind who you’re hurting

Or making salivate

Grow resentment towards everyone and everything

It’s motivating

Charles J. March III is a hospital corpsman veteran currently living in California. His work has appeared in 3:AM, Young Mag, Neutral Spaces, Maudlin House, Back Patio Press, etc. More can be found at LinkedIn and SoundCloud.