(iv.)

 

Alone in the low gravity of the bathroom

she squeezes paste from a tube,

floats in a mirror

of herself

a head trapped in glass,

can't save the world

tonight/it's already been done

anyway, it's supposed to be

an inspirational story

how the human race saved

the human race

even though it showed only Americans

saving America

while she imagines

the whole world.

She scrubs, and spits,

opens wide for the next tool but

now finds a green face staring back,

the eyes she used to have

crusted over with skin

and now it's just this one eye

(the third one)

fixing on somewhere else

(beyond propaganda)

possibly her idea of the universe

(which does exist somewhere)

expanding

at the exact moment she saws the floss

through the two back molars -

one unseen egg

drifts into darkness.