Moth Killing for Beginners Jamie Uy
112. Begin to bring your awareness to the moth that was just there. Allow your eyes to softly close like the dust settling off the insect’s not-butterfly wings. Notice how your disgust feels in your throat. Concentrate on the beady pupils, the feathered limbs. Take a deep inhale. Fly through the locust pose, the crow pose, the corpse pose.
5. Pause your YouTube video. Confirm I AM NOT A ROBOT. Select all
images with trees. Why are you watching a Gwyneth Paltrow lookalike
dye her organic cotton fiber scarves using natural ingredients? Why is her hair so shiny? Who knew that boiling a few avocado pits in a pot would brew such a perfect millennial pink?
73. Freeze the damp clothes for twenty-four hours to kill the larvae and the eggs. Use vinegar to help. Listen to the best of elevator jazz music when you’re put on hold by pest control. A “swarm” is a funny word,
laughable, the way people at the barbeque politely scrunch their nose
when you inform them you’re a vegan, and that you brought a vegetable platter.
99. Do you pronounce tarot “TARO”, like the root crop, or “TO ROT”?
When your mother was a girl, her family could only afford sweet potatoes.
You are not the Catholic piano-playing daughter she raised you to be. You pull the Moon in reverse, and The Empress falls out of the deck. You tell
her you will not have children until the government does something about climate change.
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