The opposite of January is salt. Fear not
what your country can do for you, but what you
can fear for your country. There have been prophecies
made that were influenced by dietary distress,
in the same way that national borders have been
drawn with cartographic aesthetics in mind.
Santa Claus has a GDP but we’re all too chickenshit
to calculate it. To imagine takes energy and that too
can be measured, in joules but also time-cost
and opportunity cost. Every day a new painting is made
and the Earth decides to trash it. Rotates it anyway.
Planned obsolescence, compostable utensils.
A mission statement is just a promise to fail
in a particular way. Yes, we loved as hard as we could,
but the sea level rose anyway. A calendar is wasteful
in regard to sustainability: it is clear that the enemy is time.