Cannot locate signal
I went looking for the cracked, faded and distant voice that I knew lurked somewhere in the jagged landscape, hidden unheard between distorted peaks and hushed valleys. I held the sleek, electronic seashell to my ear, and behind the tempestuous waves I could hear the faint promise of a silent sea of sound, stretching as far as I could ever care to fall.
Too suddenly though, I was pulled from the briny deep before I had found my water wings. Tossed onto the rocks, I held the ocean’s brutally terse rejection message in my hands. No signal.
Trapped in nothing more than passing breaths and fleeting vagueness, with little more than a cotton wool head of winter cold and wistful recollections to my name, I decided that the only option open to me was to surrender to each and every brief moment as it happened, no matter how nonsensical it seemed at first glance (or second blow to the right side of the head). I wrote down almost anything I saw or heard that grabbed my lack of attention — except the all too obvious — simply to fill my fallow mind with disjointed somethings and hopefully carpet the barren landscape with meaningless curves and corners.
My fingers tapped out a frenzied rhythm, singlehandedly attempting to keep up with the electronic voice burbling its observations, obstructions and instructions into my randomly accessed memory. My processor, however, refused to cooperate. My solid state storage lay fragmented and corrupt. Burnt out. Error. Cannot connect. No signal.