Words by: Joy Fan 
Art by:  Jennifer Chen

oh, what a sterile world we live in 

sterile hands shaken with sterile smiles exchanged 

under sterile lighting with sterile teas seeping through sterile teeth 

sterile gym swapped with sterile meal plans followed by sterile TV series 

sterile grass watered by sterile water drunk by sterile dogs

their sterile shits picked up by sterile bags and thrown into sterile bins 

give me DIRT 

under my fingernails

under my toes 

under the soles of my shoes as I trek through this world

give me MESS

messy rooms, messy friendships, messy food 

messy cars, messy relationships, messy clothes 

give me CHAOS 

let the inner turmoil of my mind be reflected into the world around me 

I want manifestations of INFINITE outcomes, reflecting and multiplying upon one another 

give me the EXPERIENCE

of being a human, on this unclean, unfiltered, unorganised earth that we were put on