Story of My Life

the city hummed
and glittered
like a computer chip
in some unknowable machine
holding its secrets
like a poker hand.
i am lost in the wide ocean
floating like plankton.
i lay shipwrecked
on a desolate shore
littered with broken glass.
i know less than nothing.
planning my life
along the course of the lyrics
of popular songs.
i know less than nothing.
life is just sand
that slips through your hands.