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# All of the sudden
- URL: https://www.fsm.ink/all-of-the-sudden/
- Published: 2025-07-18T17:02:51.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-03T17:53:06.000Z
- Author: Staff
- Tags: Poetry, #Import 2026-08-03 09:59

*by Edie Roberts*

 the wreck is alive.  
 Another year limps its way  
 onto the stage and we’d like to think  
 of the internet as millions of little spotlights  
 but its daytime everywhere all of time forever.  
 The blur is perfectly feathered.  
 I’m a sad tomato  
 crushing a can in the flat splash  
 of a disco ball. It takes a while  
 to realize you’re a paper castle  
 in a floodplain.  
 The midwest beckons your dissolve.  
 There is nothing I’d rather do. Another year  
 props itself up for a photograph,  
 the responsible glitter licks and whips our faces.  
 We are inside  
 and paying for it,  
 crashing into one another  
 like falling forward through punching bags.  
 Big sacks of hideous warmth. I’m kissed  
 and asked afterward if it was okay. It is because  
 it doesn’t matter like its meant to. Disco ball  
 meat lips mash and mash.  
 Crush a can. Don’t look up. Don’t look  
 at one another in the eyes unless to gawk at the gore  
 of another year coming in with hot meat to mash and pin us  
 without asking first. It doesn’t matter like its meant to. The lights  
 never  
 go  
 out.  

> Edie Roberts is a rabbit with a hat. A genderqueer mouthpiece ponied up to bat, cheeks fat with American anxiety and morale relay. They reside in Detroit, Michigan but would be happy to visit you. Find them under mark's thumb @squabtastic or where the sky is blue @edieroberts.bsky. social — [https://edieroberts.wordpress.com/](https://edieroberts.wordpress.com/?ref=fsm.ink)