cubicle
July 16, 2006, 5:16 PM,
It's mid-day in your cubicle and a tremor is building up in your right hand. Palpitations, strange-waves, Radiation. A tremor in your right hand. It's mid-day and there are no windows and you can feel the texture of the pebbled carpet with your arms hugging yourself and your eyes closed. The auras around the stapler, the binders, the empty coffee containers, the shredded papers, the documents so neatly clipped, stacked, the rolling fabric chairs... are not auras of light or odor or sound or anything with a name but something something something else. Something else. Weights and measures of days, the ctrl-alt-deletes, the dust, the thwack of switched light, fabric talking plastic the.... The Corridors. It's midday and it is Sunday and you don't know where you are. Radiation, Palpitation, Rescuscitation, Ligature. Hugging those human bits in, clutching filaments, huddled mass of many. Red blinking, green blinking, blue blinking. The only color here is the color of blinking and all those red-purple-blue organs inside are playing some tune without you.