Galaxy

You leave the soft wine blood
of your mom to enter a world
of plastic. The trees
are cell towers. For safety,
we even wrap
dicks. Well,

there’s still dancing. But
data compression
long ago flattened music
into its own fogged
mirror. Listen,

when you’re born
you’re a galaxy
shoved into
a half-empty bottle
of Mexican coke.
Wanna hear
a secret?
Car accidents are caused
by angels who only want
to help us
out.

Sera Gamble's poetry has appeared in publications such as Harpur Palate, Birdcoat Quarterly, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Nine Mile Magazine, Sky Island Journal, and Reckoning. She also writes film and television; most recently, she co-created the series You and The Magicians. Sera splits her time between Los Angeles and several parallel dimensions.