Isn't this what techies all decay?
Juliana Roth
torn screen, left to pixelate
unraveled image, already apart
hold onto life as if it were a thing to do
start panting yesterday
thinking soil was beautiful
like a dumb Romantic
aliens seem a better cure
for loneliness than this upload
they might even love me back
a bird going right for my eye
could kill me, I am in love
with the Earth again
especially for its destruction
and that I cannot avoid
my own, I confess: I’ve hit
and scolded and crushed
a cockroach, live streamed
from my shower head
I did not press record
there is nothing ancient about water
it is the newest thing on Earth
Juliana Roth is the creator of the narrative web series, The University, which won Best Web/Pilot at the Los Angeles Film Awards, was a finalist for Best Pilot with the Vancouver Independent Film Festival, and nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing. Currently, she teaches writing at NYU and The School of the New York Times. She writes the newsletter Drawing Animals and serves as an Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction.