My iCloud Storage is Full
by Flavian Mark Lupinetti
No surprise after storing all those pics from Fat Bear Week. Have you seen how much weight those dudes put on getting ready for hibernation? My god even one bear might halfway fill the cloud all by himself. And the big head statues on Easter Island. The Kansas City Chiefs defensive line. Dinosaurs. Blue whales, gray whales. killer whales, kindly whales, humpback whales, whales with perfect posture. I could have used better judgment and not stored such massive quantities. Black holes. Those fuckers are ginormous. I have no idea what they are, but they sucked up all the storage I had left.
Flavian Mark Lupinetti, a poet, fiction writer, and heart surgeon, is the author of The Pronunciation Part (The Poetry Box, 2025). His stories and poems appear in Barrelhouse, Bellevue Literary Review, Cutthroat, Redivider, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. A West Virginia native, Mark lives in New Mexico, where he serves on the board of his public library.
Photograph, 2024. Click image to enlarge.