15 March 2024
5 July 2024 rejected Island Magazine

plain torque


despite pronouncements from the elite to sooth our fellow consumerists I’ve become an uploading member of the doomeratti destined to be more doomerist day by day and it’s all because key curves get steeper by the year while valiantly we create new bleach resistant corals speak green and retrieve dog shit with industrially compostable bags wrapped around our hands in every facet of our bored out lives while the gazillion particled world sees the pin pricks for what we are and I’m forced to conclude natural systems are contracting and our civilisation is unsustainable


soprano: I’m sorry (sniff) the exhilaration the vacuum

alto: craven shame

tenor: space invaders peow peowww…

bass: but will Procrustes fit my bench?


and in the antirhythm interregnum Xtinction talk what parlez vous bitscapes generate the minds of dead computers that now help better robot comms

oh you said the once was life the nicene word the only true one resurrection of what never is


and what find in this cube?
the naked elephant
the pyjamaed teddy bear
the ocean crust the sky blaze choking gasp


put yr arms around me honey
hold me tight