"…something like the supervisor of an entire team of political agents…"
I want to clank my fist against the armor they’re constructing inside me. Rattle the scaffolding just enough to let them know I know there are laborers hammering away at this shiny new space suit they’re building inside me I can feel them hammering with their tiny hammers. My skin can feel them all so … Read more
In Generic World you go to local Hospital, and they say: “Welcome to Hospital,” and you can feel that capital letter, like they extra-mean it. You have a problem with one of your organs, and they say: “Organ Problem!” And you nod your head. “Let’s get that taken care of,” they say with Teeth. Doctor … Read more
He gave me back my hard drives today by the pond by the geese by the free-range 3-year-olds who don’t even know what “pandemic” means. By their moms who don’t trust the geese, don’t trust the two old(er) guys at the picnic table with matching gray streaked beards handing a box between them. Wordless very … Read more
We’re out in the morning driving down 8th street after the rain looking for coffee in a favorite neighborhood trying to figure out if this store or that cafe made it through the night. I’m expecting to see palm fronds in the street sandy-colored mutts running at an angle cars and cans tipped over telling … Read more
Lousy words roll, start somewhere toward the back of his skull Marble out in his too full mouth toward his lips, from his lips spinning, spill out onto the floor. Lousy words make him slide fall sprain on the ice his wrist catching himself with his right hand, the seat of his pants cold, wet. … Read more
Threaten me with your breeze, Your touch this Fragile skin I’ve got has cracks. If you come to my door, I’ll open it slow, Step back, pull up like for a fadeaway, I’ll raise my voice, Keep you at bay. Don’t breathe into me, my friend my foe don’t send me words. I won’t breathe … Read more
It’s changing things. I’m evolving into future me, some better biped. A cellular remodel til I can eat at a restaurant outside or be in a friend’s backyard outside and if they walk past me, too close, it’s ok, not too close after all. And I can use their restroom. And after that, after this: … Read more
When I come back to the office we will all look older. And that’s because we will all be older. No one will return as they were. As they left. Even if they sit in similar seats, and the fashions haven’t changed all that much. Meeting rooms will be booked. Restrooms taken. Notebooks will be … Read more
And then suddenly, yesterday, it was Spring. With dreams of visits to foreign lands — to movie theaters, coffee shops, to the insides of other people’s houses where dining room tables turned into desks might become dining room tables with a few things on them once again. All in the seasons ahead. Far away, down … Read more