By Carina Milena Maceira
everyone is busy
busy adjusting their collars, their faces, scarves, watches, wives, nannies, conversations, computers, coffee lids
turning, chasing, stifling, ejecting
propelling into the dense yet trivially eclectic air like in this millisecond of a bustling coffee shop you can be anyone you want to be with none of the world caring, yet
still
the walls manage to bleed, like a carcass being drained into rosebuds onto a perfectly curated stage
decorated with puppets that always have one ear glued to the grapevine
hand glued to a device
eyes glued to lights and digits and algorithms yet all too insidiously aware of the person who is unaware they’re being watched as well, so just in case
they continue adjusting
whilst I wish they’d all be too happy to care
like spilled coffee and feverish laughter of a wedding or a baby on the horizon
for once I wish we’d not be so stressed
so tightly tuned yet playing no hymns
maybe, maybe it’s just me
maybe that puffed chest posture of his comes natural and the stiffness in the next fellow is just second nature and all of the women are happy,
eyes down

eyes up
eyes to the side
hold
adjust
glance
repeat
fake a laugh, an adjective, a noun, a sentiment, a belief
maybe it’s just me and my record scratched eyes clouded between let downs, job interviews, partisanship and fuzzy noise
fuzzy noise like overexposure to light
overexposure to such a busy world
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Carina Milena Maceira is a 20 year old, Latina poet, teacher and activist. Carina grew up in America primarily raised by her Kuwaiti family, adding to her multicultural identity that often shows in her creative expression. She has been published in Hooligan Magazine, The Miami Chronicles, Yes Poetry, Jaffat El Aqlam. She is also the Founding Editor in Chief of Ink & Oil magazine.