ten seconds after recording that tiktok

how do you feel?

ten seconds after recording that tiktok

and it's just you

alone

surrounded by syrup


and who cleans all that?

is it you?

do you wipe the countertop?

scrub it hard, I presume.


and all that on the floor.

do you get on your hands and knees?

on all fours

and wipe endlessly?

bow down

like you're worshipping some god

one who certainly doesn't look kindly on you


and when you try to get up

from those impossibly sticky floors

does your body stay?

as if trapped in hell?


I hope so.