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from Criteria For Being by Scott Steven Erickson

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Is it still okay to wear your shoes while taking out the garbage?
Will we still share food and necessities bought for the apartment?
Will this degrade to a standard awkward roommate situation
With passive-aggressive notes about the dishes and the bills
But with elements of jealousy about each other’s
Newfound romantic inclinations

Our contrasts are more stark now
You have no reason to stay up late anymore
And I have little reason to stay home

Even when removing something harmful from a body
It can still sometimes lead to a painful recovery
Like when you helped me after my appendectomy
Or when we’d exercise those demons:
Your depression, my anxiety

It would be pretty awkward if we wore the matching shirts
Bought by your parents as a souvenir
For the underlying dysfunction which we held in our
Attempts to make this thing match our conflicting ideals
Our delusions about what it means to have a happy ending
Our policies about marriage and family
When really we’re just fellow travelers traversing this road
With our quirky, macabre, and unique sense of meaning
Which occasionally overlaps

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from Criteria For Being, released September 29, 2018

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