This is just a box. You cannot come into this box. You cannot come into this box with me. I do not share this box. This box is mine. I will climb into this box. I am now climbing into this box. I will close the lid of this box. I am now closing the […]
I’ll try and speak and shout and scream above the sirens for you, dearest. Raise my faded energy loss voice and alcohol addled larynx above the soused spectators on the streets outside and down and dead. So, yes, you should be warned that there’s one stinking shitload of Friday night frenzied fucking and festivities going […]
I know it can’t be. And I know it shouldn’t be, will never be, must never be. And I know you shouldn’t be talking to me when you’re nothing but an inanimate object. Nothing but a mere obelisk of imperfect glass. And I know that I shouldn’t hear its watery pleas. And I know that […]
I am the whisper the whisperer the shy of voice the pause that becomes a cadence I am the word between the words after the rise and before the fall I am the dead air that even in ownership of silence beats with a heart of possibility I am the emptiness in your lungs between […]
Nine o’clock at night he comes to the door. Nine o’clock at night. Nine o’clock, I ask you. I tell you, he did. To the door. At nine. What sort of time? What sort of hour? What sort of time and hour do you call this? He knocks. I answer. We stand staring at each […]
Can you? Can you hear? Is this working? Thing on? Is this on? Is this thing on? Tap tap tap. No sound, nothing. Good. Click track and rewind. Press button and rewind. Start again. Start over. Start start start and startle me. Start again. Start over. Over already, before we begin. Start. Shall we start? […]
welcome to your nervous illness your nervous system your fluttering and your fluctuating cue clamouring voices are the clamouring voices ready yes ready we’re ready as of a decade ago stood five deep and stacked seventeen high offstage left primed and prepared and perfectly poised take to the spotlights take to the floodlights switch switch […]