csudhega

1 min

pull the plug

By Mason Martin |

the feedback loop – audio
 
the hair of a leg – animal

two transient, fragile vessels
 
full of untouchable worlds, pulses
 
and static, fraying along, obscuring
 
radio vein, human wire, fleeing
 
from silence, cognizance, sweat – entropy.

another arm pain – the heart this time?

just more swollen armpit. more

disturbance of the nodes.
 
the loop resets, hums against it.

the world inside is an old fiction - a

decay endless and inevitable.


 
but what do you know?
 
what makes you so eager to touch ghosts?


 
i see you hold the bell of the speaker
 
like a child, letting it beat your heart for you.
 
i see you toss the crusts of another sandwich.
 
i see you stand in the shower as though water

still carried the myth of infinity, of surplus.
 
i see you let the tub fill, considering the poetry

of the old radio, the old shame, the old trope.


 
cliché or cowardice; just let the thought

leech into the static – disperse
 
into the universe.