How to Look Like Everything is Okay in Photographs

Is your house making
you feel large? Do the curtains
reveal a shimmery dust when
you pat them gently in the sunlight?
Is your kitchen a "no fuck zone?"
Does your bathroom smell of bleach
or the savory after-sprinkle of talc?
When you enter your house
are you greeted with the whoosh
of dander, or a plush degenerative
offal gush? Is your desk sprinkled
with broken hair and flexed pixels
or do you fix your bicycle in a
proper room? Do you enjoy gazing
out the window absentmindedly
only to discover someone is looking
back at you from the adjoining building?
When you ate your breakfast this morning
did you think of me?