Young Hunger

(February 2023. I show the daopoetry app to Billy. We write this poem together on the classic Koreatown Couch.)

Young Hunger

the city of angels bought paradise
a devil’s bargain carved at canal crossroads
Happy thoughts I want to have happy thoughts
In this toxic waste water cycle moving into
Impressive mystical mind I’m scared to believe in
Young hunger
and did i ever really want a perfect life? yes
but the point of perfect is in the distance
from it and how it moves me