the destroyer > text > Jacob Schepers
from THE SHEER SPACE
I’m not saying addiction’s a deal breaker
It’s just something we need to talk about
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Your confluence of radio waves and easy-bake
ovens might as well go to pot, a cactus of ideas
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Ideation and the influence of time on skin
Ringworm and sunspots the familiar culprits
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One’s melatonin another’s heroin
Another’s pancake breakfast another’s soup supper
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It’s just something we need to talk about
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Something we should have addressed earlier
before it got to this // before it sat
there among the dirty dishes
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Honestly it may be rather endearing: we may be
both enamored and alarmed by its hold
on our free speech // the sheer space
between us // its seizure citing eminent
domain in the name of a new
highway // a strip mall breaking ground //
the alleys – the infrastructure’s bastard capillaries –
where a stockpile of devices invite us to spill dirty blood
* * *
Please click here to install the latest Flash plugin
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Poor, poor Flash // Here lies Flash
It bit
into the apple
and the apple
bit back
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Where are your corrupted files now,
robots.txt?
// Where, oh dearth, may you vacate
the premises of good folks? //
Honest, hardworking people
//
Give me forcible entry or give me
squatters’ rights
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Grant me amnesty or at least pizzazz //
some sequined bootstraps, a rhinestone belt
buckle,
the tip
from a national hotline //
A number for the local’s favorite takeout
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Take a number // wait in line
* * *
Think of me as a press release
to be
delivered
just before
hightailing it out
of there // the thick of scandal
poaching your tender
hide
* * *
THE AMERICAN EPIC
tells a story
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of westward expansion
// reposition this writing //
entropy
and false consciousness
//
THE GLOBAL MARKET
foretells
the dawn of a rendezvous
// reposition
and shift to face a sunbeam //
so far removed
from a local network so far defined
//
We are all family here
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THE BED
we share grounds our politics
a highly political space
no more
political than it is
and, really, now
conflation
leads to a pullout
couch
boasting your stains
// For padding
the duvet too heavy
for either of us
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