momentary loss of all hope for humanity

while waiting in line at a bank,

a television hoisted in the upper corner of the room

has anderson cooper’s television show on &

a woman is testifying that during her

near death experience,

she acquired the ability to speak

telepathically

to both aliens & angels---

she looks right into the camera when she says it

with all the “faith” in the world

gleaming out her

beady

little

idiotic glow worm

eyes

&

those beady eyes

stare right down at you

while the person in front of you is taking

way

too

long

to finish whatever the f**k they are doing at the window---

your mind dashes between frustration with the actual physical idiot

asking mundane bank questions to an obviously

bored out of their goddamned mind

bank teller &

the nutbag on the telly

trying to convince a national audience

that she is somehow

SPECIAL.