lishanshan

You have no right to say such things The truth is somewhere in between it and what exists in my head But then you say it like a certainty, deny my conception of reality, rip it out of me before the first breath I know you don't know any better so I say nothing and tuck away my pains, sink beneath the waves of your words I bottle sand and bits of shells saved from your still- crashing surf to puzzle later but never fit together

The entrails of the machine are spilling in haphazard order Across the allotted space of my desk Silver, red and black coating hug the gold and semi-conductors The heart of the machine, my machine, is heatedly blinking to the wires of a careful and furious transfusion It was surgically removed from the body that could no longer read it We are performing a long overdue emergency operation- First the data that does not quite transfer Save the heart then save the body, Save the mind.