Live Your Best Lie

After four years of working night shifts
In gestures of victory and mouthing the word "boom"
As the pythons have no natural predators in Florida
I will make your sandwich for you 
By scooping out the bagel's chewy insides
When humans started burning fossil fuels
Because there was no more room.

— BOONA DAROOM

Boona Daroom’s work has appeared in LIT, SOFTBLOW, and Apt, among other places. He lives in Brooklyn.