Recluse and correspondent,
force and fragment,
black body and iridescent disk.
Faster, faster!
I know you.
There! There is the smile.
And there: the grin.
Go back. Do not allow the tape
at speed to rip or slow enough
to melt against the lens,
gears, and skin.
Quickly enough
to project a human
from within the ends
of its worlds. A harmonic
continuum curling against
itself to imprison a ghost.
The 4,551st attempt
a resounding, screaming,
eye gouging, success.
Shut it off. Its singing
rises to my ears like
vertebrae at a spine's base
gripped in a hydraulic vise,
burst and crushed one at a time like snow globes
until the last ornament is reached
at the base of my skull.
Shut it off.
I know this song. Ready the
plasma gulf apertures for test 4,552.
Reduce the cycles by 2%.
Call me when we're ready to resume trials.
force and fragment,
black body and iridescent disk.
Faster, faster!
I know you.
There! There is the smile.
And there: the grin.
Go back. Do not allow the tape
at speed to rip or slow enough
to melt against the lens,
gears, and skin.
Quickly enough
to project a human
from within the ends
of its worlds. A harmonic
continuum curling against
itself to imprison a ghost.
The 4,551st attempt
a resounding, screaming,
eye gouging, success.
Shut it off. Its singing
rises to my ears like
vertebrae at a spine's base
gripped in a hydraulic vise,
burst and crushed one at a time like snow globes
until the last ornament is reached
at the base of my skull.
Shut it off.
I know this song. Ready the
plasma gulf apertures for test 4,552.
Reduce the cycles by 2%.
Call me when we're ready to resume trials.
