Loose Wires

Sun's out like it's doing a favor

Street smells like fried rubber and grass

Someone's yelling into a blue phone

Like it might yell something back

I step over a chalked-in square

Someone lost someone won

Your shirt says Nothing Matters

But you keep adjusting it like it does

Say it quick

Say it sideways

Say it like you don't need saving

Loose wires noon heat bad timing

Half-truths taped up and rewinding

I keep moving you keep smiling

Like this isn't strange at all

Loose wires short fuse free falling

Don't look now it's almost calling

If this blows it blows while we're walking

Not waiting on a sign to fall

Ice clinks once in a paper cup

Then gives up melts too fast

There's a dog with three different names

Depending who's yelling past

You tell a story with no end

Just stop mid-sentence and stare

I nod like I caught the meaning

But it's just floating there

Count it wrong

Count it twice

Count it till it sounds like life

Loose wires noon heat bad timing

Half-truths taped up and rewinding

I keep moving you keep smiling

Like this isn't strange at all

Loose wires short fuse free falling

Don't look now it's almost calling

If this blows it blows while we're walking

Not waiting on a sign to fall

Cut the feed

Lose the thread

Say it's fine

Mean "I'm dead"

Every plan

Bent and tied

Watch it spark

When it lies

You blink

I blink

The moment keeps going

Afternoon hits like a shrug

Nothing solved nothing broke

We stand too long at the crosswalk

Watch the white man walk then choke

You laugh at something behind me

Won't say what it was about

I don't turn around to check

Some things work better left out

Loose wires noon heat bad timing

Same old world slightly misaligned

I keep moving you keep trying

To make it feel like a win

Loose wires no map still driving

Every answer keeps dividing

If this ends it ends mid-sentence

Not clean not loud just in

Green light

We go

That's it