crypto

sho
re
crypto:

pharmacy lighting, polite doors
soft blue gel caps, gentle nursing hands
homorganic words, credit cards accepted
�brilliant, simply brilliant,�
as you sip your dirty martini

in the dark parking lot of losgatos, his drunken hands fumbling with an empty money clip and the key to a car.
in the sun room of paloalto, her gucci skirt hiked up around her waist while she squats over begonias.
in the lobby of losaltos, his fingers lodged up the soda machine, desperately clawing at trapped aluminum.

(foll fall foul
ow
breaking your crypto
bourgeonbase in your rancid soup
shaking in your medial boots
you thought no one else would notice)

and now
upside down
parallax
and i say:

deliver your memory to its grave,
short circuiting and dizzy,
send it home and live out a dream
no more need to pretend, no more need to fill endless pits

you can sit on your phone, you can sit on your hands, you can sit
with steak in your belly
and pretend there�s still a need to pretend.

it makes no difference
where you are
when it
happens

and now begins the series of transmissions ending with
vowels
and now begins the curt responses in electronic
symbols
and now we will switch off your
channel

formulation, concentration, extraction,
no amount of ATT isolation
will be able to tell us
what that singular sound is

but only if you were to ask,
It would say:

�there is no such thing as silence
I eternally howl with the
agony/joy
of My own
Birth/Death
and You have no choice
but to shut up and
Listen.�