and the Stanley tumblers are pastel
just in time for spring's fine gone
consumeristic doldrums.
How bottles flew off shelves in town.
Hydration crowned the new elite,
As TikToks hummed dumb songs
and Target targets you with this crap.
What good is water
when cells divide?
Still, Owala rises—
A trend begins, a trend is through.
But cancer waits
beyond the bullshit,
A thousand tumblers can’t contain
The quiet ache, the shapeless pain.
Yet still we scroll, and still we buy,
And maybe hope is in the try—
we will never win this war,
but maybe we can wait it out.
How bottles flew off shelves in town.
Hydration crowned the new elite,
As TikToks hummed dumb songs
and Target targets you with this crap.
What good is water
when cells divide?
Still, Owala rises—
A trend begins, a trend is through.
But cancer waits
beyond the bullshit,
A thousand tumblers can’t contain
The quiet ache, the shapeless pain.
Yet still we scroll, and still we buy,
And maybe hope is in the try—
we will never win this war,
but maybe we can wait it out.