Lens

pajamas at Walmart  
everyone covered in blotchy green tattoos  
texting drivers  
AI images of lush creepy dream homes  
plastic water bottles on the ground  
obsessive self-documenters  
super morbid obesity  
diabetic kids breakfasting on cookies and Sprite  
choosy beggars on social media  
an apocalypse of screen zombies  
the Milky Way murdered by city lights  
smog blotting out majestic mountains  
bad news everywhere  
danger  
danger  
   
a reflected traffic light  
on a drizzly city night  
makes an alien dreamscape  
and for just a few moments  

you're in a better world.