as read by Alexis Orgera
EARTH IS THE UNIVERSE'S SADDEST ORGASM
Attentively out of mind,
I study the internet’s coded patterns
the same way the earth studies
the sun’s weighty bright.
There’s no telling why—
a feast of stars, YouPorn—
what we love most
can’t be touched.
And the human body lasts
about as long as a bubble,
holy planet adrift
amidst 7 and a half billion
other holy planets
adrift.
Dear celestial mother, dear latchkey dad,
sometimes I get horny
and sometimes I get depressed.
Spurtingly, when I come
it feels like my dick is positively crying.
Love is just a game of flesh, feeling and thought
someone once said to me,
someone I just made up.
Earth is the universe’s saddest orgasm,
mere passion-
less product of time’s
ever-long slaw.
OkCupid, Ok Computer. ET
phone home.
Then how
every bubble
eventually goes
pop.
Jeff Alessandrelli is the author of the full-length collection THIS LAST TIME WILL BE THE FIRST. Other work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast, Boston Review and four chapbooks. The name of Jeff’s dog is Beckett Long Snout. The name of his micro-press is Dikembe Press.