STANDARDS

numb the pain as standard practice

 

stocking up 

unfinished business 

 

Loose ends fraying 

 

forgotten lost reset

skipped to the

on again 

off again 

on again 

off again

untidy tidying of a 

glitched memory system

 

still loading…

 

spinning cycles

without accounting

 

churning chatter into

cacophony butter,

pointless muttering

and other things 

 

finally unzipped

 

nothing there 

but blackhole buttons 

undone in hasty precision 

 

incision skull open for 

viewing 

the fear beast

all consuming 

shredding thoughts 

into delusion

 

continue to look

disregard intrusion 

 

art transmutes 

beyond the story 

internal stream of

eternal provision 

 

hardened by this 

concrete dimension 

brutalist anesthetic 

rejecting of

wild nature

mothers 

untouched 

expression