Static

(Written for Vic's "Cell" competition")



Listen……static…..sssssshh…..

“Mr. Floyd, don’t hang up—this is America calling”

Listen……static…..sssssshh…..

“Ma Bell’s bringing you a brighter future—Tomorrowland is now”

Listen……static…..sssssshh…..

Cars hissed by Jim Morrisson’s window—rewire, rewire

Listen……static…..sssssshh…..

“What have you done, my son? It’s the sound of your soul”

Listen……static…..sssssshh…..

“And the nation mourns the loss of our President”—Dealey, Dealey, Dallas, grassy knoll

Listen……static…..sssssshh…..

“Pardon me, Roy—is that the Chattanooga Choo-Choo?”

Listen……static…..sssssshh…..

Unwind, unwind, rewire—time strips away, history depletes and runs down.

Listen……static…..sssssshh…..

Tomorrow will not crawl in a petty pace, for my children, there will be no more tomorrows.

Listen……static…..sssssshh…..

*Alarms! Alarms!*  “Houston—we have a…….”  Zip, zip, strip, rewire, unwind

Listen……static…..sssssshh…..

“And we make the lateral cut……we have given to Caesar, what is Caesar’s….rewire”

Listen……static…..sssssshh…..

Neurons—excite—synapse—relapse—audience claps—trap—trap—seize

Listen……static…..sssssshh…..

Overload—stole a soul—told you so, told you so—jump rhyme, skip-a- rope

Listen……static…..sssssshh…..

Busy signal—dead—dead—dead—bugs in our beds—say goodnight—moon



“He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.”  Matthew 11:15