November 1, 2022 - Iggy Shuler’s “How To Be Endangered”

Everything is an exercise in abstinence, in waiting:

Not to check my phone, not to spend, not to eat.

To keep empty. I write my mantras. I starve and roll.

I discipline myself so the world doesn’t have to,

Knowing the chestnuts fall and go unpunished,

Hard by the time they hit the ground.