I've been researching how much it costs to feed a family (gonna donate what I can to a "soup kitchen" (what they call themselves)) & ended up on a gov't website that has propaganda at the top of its page. I feel sick.

My poetry app is speaking truth to me this afternoon.

Some numbers are just rather magical. 1,550 days wine free.

Everything is terrible. ICE still sucks; Israel intercepted the aid flotilla; the U.S. murdered 4 more Venezuelans, whole families are begging on the side of our main drag (I stopped & gave them funds b/c there were babies). So I went to our lake w/ a friend & took pictures of an egret on a post.

I was going to hang out on TikTok until midnight to see if it would really vanish, but I got distracted and didn’t reopen the app until 11 p.m. They took it down early. This message is weird and gives me the bad kind of chills. The dread is heavy.