Saturday, August 12, 2023

give the lady her xange


siren
high pitched drones
annihilate 
under constant attack
piercing
shrieking cries
amplified tone
waves goodbye
hear me
hear me
moving lips
waving flagship
stripped thigh
meat
 clinging
cinged irradiated meltdown 
core
reactor
amputated eye
tempest storm
i:storm
s'weeping sound
broomstick pole
dancers
tap to activate
swipe for content
s'end
candy caned & brined
show at 11
sucking sound replaces
broomstick
mexanized sucking
sounds 

the numbers add up..it's all there...bleeps. grunts. gestures.  sitting with memory  engaged involved forgetting.  re-member.....excavating consciousness...time traveling.. we will come, rejoicing. snippets implanted to give some context to the story unfolding in aisle b at the self check out lane..spill on aisle b...clean-up on aisle b.
scanners read the emotion emanating as magnetic waves pulsing advertisements cortically..seam..there's an opening in the veil..seamlessly..oh, good..mr. clean brings his magick eraser to aisle b...i waited...she waited...the rush with only a few items to the exit..go ahead...no, you go...really, all that was done with some hand gestures and grunts...shuffling sound surrounded by crinkled air pop crisps...i knew why she was hesitating..she had said in so many spoken words, "i don't have enough"...is it cold enough for you? shared story of how she got from there to here and how no one told her about the winter here...canvas shoes gave it away..slippery soles for this kind of weather..i place my few items on the conveyor before emptying the contents of her cart onto the belt...the packaging outweigh the product..oh, wait..you get what you pay for..slim&you...except in this case..you pay for what you think you'll become ..the branding iron strikes....sssstttttttttt....
it was like the cashier lady was the executioner..we shuffle forward. you only got a few things..yes. you only have a few other things..i wait.. the lady tells the cashier to put my things on her total... i refuse..lady insists..i refuse..my insistence to the cashier to not proceed with ladies offer ..   this your stuff? yes. wait. we wait. that'll be $$$.  i refuse..lady insists..i refuse.. i refuse as politely and humbly as to not offend..i say it's hard everywhere and if i needed it i'd more than graciously accept her kindness. she's already said she didn't have enough.
swipe. uhmmm...you don't have enough balance on this card to cover what ya got out here...the items in the ladies cart had already been separated into must-have and wants...swipe. $hame. the lady keeps looking. she knows she ain't got enough... i give the cashier a $20 to cover the balance ..cashier extends limp handed gesture holding change...give the lady her change..standing still with my few items...the lady asks for a hug...silent staring ....we embrace in a hug...exclaiming bet she didn't tell ya about the summers either..any of ya know me know the silence was a brief interlude...

kaliope

clip clop
flip flop

cavities
excavated mourning
amputated useless limb
cellophane brain
catastrophic membrane
terror train
all aboard 
cattle car platform
blank bovine stare
calving 
standing fully gloved
at aldi's

cinaesthetic afterglow
shine little
gloworm shine
window pain
glass jaw fractured
holding
pinned

broken
I see a man standing
stooped shouldered grin
infuriated acceptance

malignancy spreads
 sharing aquarium stares
goldfish eyes bulge
ping pong 
ping pong
ball plops
terror
waves cracking
skulls
thwack!
silent thuds
stillness breaks
tension surfaces
hold this. hold this.
outstretched limbs
paralytic twin
pressure plate
textonic quakes
shattered
heart
broken body 
departs
radiator remains
thwack
tender terror
back-end shuffle
resign
dark hearted 
bootstraps
click bang
tip tapping
silent crack
love being fracked
de-forestated
after-show
imprinted bloody hearts
acetylene flame
torxed
gasping goldfish stare
ping ping
ping pong
thwack


all.rights.reserved.terri.l.gillentine.2015

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