Keep your seatbelt fastened at all times
the house has been abandoned
the way it was and the furniture and the leftover food
is no home. transit. me unyielding and sweltering
the shutters don’t get opened anymore
threatening letters are still tumbling
in through the letter flap
but nobody reads them
you should always help yourself
before helping somebody else
you must leave the letters alone
and remain seated and when you are surrounded
by fire you must calmly put on your life jacket
we can’t possibly know anyway
who is going to die while you are offline
who is going to delete their profile on purpose
and leave the house full of knickknacks and dirty dishes
one single hanger for something to hang
and even though it is even more terrifying
than an emergency landing in Siberia
I tend to believe
that they fall in love with each other at the very end