What if I Don’t Leave My Body?

 

The earth is crying

            because it once cried simply

            from seeing a puppy at an airport 

            lick its owner’s cheeks clean

            of feelings of inadequacy

 

yet won’t 

            visit the Mona Lisa 

 

because a stranger eating octopus 

            at a bar in Barcelona said     it’s pretty

            underwhelming.

 

Same for the Taj Mahal

            Niagara Falls

            Rome 

            (the carbonara wasn’t quite

            transcendental)

 

same 

            for most of the world whenever 

            elation wasn’t slipped into his hand 

            like the lost code of a bitcoin account.