Analysis of Plastic Living

clicking on plastic countertops

and maxed out Mastercards

slid into cashiers hands

don't mean so much to me.

asking for my payment plan

while we reassure each other

of something that will never happen

doesn't make me bat an eye.

The mortgage on my house

is an aesthetic implication

that disappears with the ignition of paper.

The greenbacks are in the air burning

and I'm eating the embers.