Float

the sea

has no street signs

but somehow I know

I float toward the end-times

in this pink inner tube

on the open ocean,

obsessively squeezing a rubber duck,

because that’s life.


Jake Stein (he/him)

Jake Stein survives despite all odds in Portland, OR, where he concocts strange tales on his laptop and spends too much time at Powell's Books. You can find him stumbling around twitter: @jakewritesagain

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