List Poem: Life in America

That it takes years, years that occur in correspondence to life events and not as isolated occurrences in abstract and granulated instances tracing in the lines of the of Polaroids (like lithography) into iterative instances of achievement, trophy.

It is also the strain of hours that are not in the dark in a hallowed and Romanticized fantasy of laboring over work by candlelight, but through the opaque mechanism of cost-efficient lighting and tempering the monotony with the types of dreams distilled in immobility.

It is commingling this with personal adversity, life happenstance, death in the family, the denounement of relationships, change in social status, relocation, financial instability, taxes, estate taxes, attention deficit disorder, post-industrial capitalization, dimorphism, identity theft, Jerry, diaspora, racism, sexism, classism, gender-studies majors, Queer theory, small claims court, collectors, long distance relationships, friends with benefits, second marriages, foreclosures, student loans, social anxiety, mixed marriages, diuretics, enemy combatants, Momma Grizzlies, reality television, yellow journalism, the culture industry, the New Yorker, The Post, Rupert Murdoch, the Koch Bros, George Soros, Alan Greenspan, Woody Allen, criterion collection couples, Internet dating, step-dad, local bands, pitchfork famous, chopsticks, sangria specials, cafe cuties, mall of America, indoor rollercoasters, list-servs, indexical thinking, metafiction, the white Negro (book), death of the author (essay), death of irony (essay), death of the hipster (essay), death, the apostle's creed, latent [,] corporate Catholicism, youth group makeouts, David Lynch disography diapers, trash on Tuesdays, free beer on red eyes, 99 reasons you won't text me back, the Great Recession (moniker), Sex and the City tour buses, the former children of child stars, trustafarians, bankrupcy, Facebox friends, skirting second life, thrift-shopping, fill in the blank, multiple choice, box sets, stealing from Stanely Kubrick, associative though patterns, read-only files, turbulence, tipping well.