BIO
Benjamin García is a Community Health Specialist in rural New York. He works with a wide diversity of people, including those who use injection drugs, are transgender, or who simply want to learn more about choices regarding their body (including decisions that may involve a fetus). Because many of our communities are made more vulnerable by recent legislation, he is working to have evidence-based and science-based solutions recognized as inalienable entitlements. His work has been published in Barrelhouse, Boston Review, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, and West Branch Wired.
Postcard from the apocalypse
neither was it fire neither ice
it was the undecided indifferent time
of lukewarm undrinkable water in the faucets
while we snaked new pipes for
crude our toilets
flooded bathroom basement house
flooded streets though no one seemed to mind
we didnt need venice anymore it was ok
because this was yet another new
way of being
left alone connected one of those
is what we always wanted with bitcoins we could buy it
your wishlist turning on a
spit we traded viruses like
viruses
cash was our cash crop we could 3d print our darkest thought
we made it diamonds islands climate but
we were not citizens of the
earth or if we were
global warming deported us anyway
it was ok we found a new peak bei dao
stocks ratings people high
and reality tv
was the new public office our phones voted
our cars made phone calls computers drove our cars
and even teddy bears spied on our families
corporations turned the people like a coin
between thumb index middle finger
oh yeah it was when the middle finger was our
way
of saluting our leaders forgive us forgive us
we didnt know what we had done
to deserve to be nice to each other
so we werent
we ate the world like a cold plum
we found a new center yeats pound
from the pit we wave hello