In the lighter timeline
where opacity was up by three percent
and I had not accessed Divergent #50304R.43V5,
subsequently getting lost

in a present I had never opened,
I was unaware

that crime pays so amazingly well.

It’s possible that it didn’t in my original reality
but here, only the good die poor.

It’s unfortunate that it took me so long
to discover this fact
or the fact that kleptocracy and prejudice
are like peanut butter and chocolate
– and I have bought lots of stock in Reese’s.

This alternate universe took a little getting used to
but now that I have
I’m like a pig who has reached harmonic convergence
with everything
– and it’s all thanks to the technology that brought me here
and left me stuck,
never able to return.