29 December 2021
12 January 2023
p0sthuman: the evening before p.49
cabaret
bees in poppies
ants in a cabinet
of blond wood laminated lacquered sixties short splayed legs brass feet on the
left pulled outward and down from the top edge a door opens
a record player slides out-and-down on hinged grooves that keep it horizontal
the rolling stones on the turntable spin
the tonearm bobs up and down the stylus runs in a 500 metre single etched spiral groove to sing
I CAN’T GET NO O SAT
IS FACTION
on the right a door’s pulled out-and-down from the top edge
revealing a radio with an amber dial on which a cream coloured plastic indicator runs through
9LO but you don’t know what’s there because the record player is selected
I CAN’T GET NO O
GIRLY ACTION
neither can you hear through a sash window of 3 mm float glass
on the edge of the suburb a distant beach’s bleak waves through which dolphins
dance
nor indeed your neighbours talking