Camera Roll

I angled the half-moon of my face
out of frame because

I wanted to stimulate the imagination
wanted them to need it like they need

a snack a shot
a second mask with elastic

cleaned our whole apartment on the weekend
because I couldn’t clean the whole world

met a 5G truther on the Fourth of July
she said we just don’t know enough

tell yourself a myth if you need to, like
it takes a mere day to replace

all the body’s cells
those frames within frames

I wish they would hurry up already
I’m afraid they never will

Jeremiah Moriarty is a writer from Minnesota. His work has previously appeared in The Rumpus, Prelude, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Hobart, The Cortland Review, and elsewhere. He tweets @miahmoriarty.