android melodies
one night on a concrete tenement stoop,
light from distant billboards and a slim swan.
those signs still blaze somewhere, amongst a
bag of tricks. oh, can i be close to you?
but if i touched you i’d never let go -
seeing you right there wasn’t soon enough.
you could be everywhere by now, wasting
your words. apprehension turned neon just
once. and it burned to nothing just as quick;
to stuck circuitry and songs skipped over.
to nuts and bolts all over the ground and
my letters left to pepper the ether.
it wasn’t the fall. it was the hard stop.
09.04.2023
