from Silicon Valley Shadow of Death
from Silicon Valley Shadow of Death
iAbdicated the throne and disappeared into the populace to beg and prophecy
iBroke out in this rash I blame it on chemtrails what are you here for?
iCampaigned well in the cities but I think we lost this one out in the boondocks
iDied a few years ago to be honest but thanks for the Tinder message
iEmptied myself of myself that’s called kenosis baby girl
iFroze myself in 2048 in what year did you freeze yourself?
iGrew up under a firmament of tobacco smoke and gossip
iHope you understand the predicament this company is in and do all you can as a
shareholder to help right this ship
iInterviewed for a job making snow in Aspen but turned it down when I learned that
all the flakes would be identical
iJoined the Communist Party when I was your age the meetings were in somebody’s
flat there was always stupendous soup
iKeep expecting to see a mushroom cloud boiling up over that there horizon
iLawyered up when I heard they were going to throw the book at me it would’ve been
better just to duck
iManned a lighthouse on the coast for forty years there wasn’t a single shipwreck but
my mind hit the rocks
iNeed you to do something for me that man over there the one with the birthmark I
need him gone
iObliterated that ancient farming village with this thumb or was it this one
iPeeked over the wall Johnny Reb was singing Christmas carols we sang together all
night but come morning we were the bitterest of enemies again
iQuit pretending I’m in love with her I love her and our life together which is so
comfortable so much wicker
iRose from the accident site and have been hovering over my homeland a good month
now waiting for someone to notice
iSank down on my knees in the clover and touched the rabbit still warm bleeding
delicately from the ears
iTry always to remember that everyone was a child once and no one asked to be born
iUsed to live in that neighborhood until rents skyrocketed now I just work there
iViolated parole please ignore the shrieking thing on my ankle and kiss me
iWhistled for my favorite hound but he’d gotten hisself into one heck of a pickle
iXsposed myself to the commuters on the highway below just to give them a reason to
look up
iYoked the oxen up and slowly turned the field over like a card of portent
iZoomed in on her face until all there were were pixels each one shaped like an
hourglass about to run out