Tuesday, October 03, 2023

A DIALOGUE OF SORTS WITH AN ABSENT FRIEND

 

What is that paper shredder doing

In the bedroom?


It is eating artichokes and

Articulating stanzas

In a seldom spoken

Finno-Uralic language.


How can it do that when

It is not even plugged in?


That is a superficial view.

When it is plugged in

It can only receive.

Mundane electric current

Supplied to it by

State supported oligopolies,

But unplugged and free,

It is attuned to an

Inspirational multiverse

Of currents unknown to us

Some so far beyond our perceptions,

That to an unplugged paper shredder,

We are mere irrelevant apes,

Who would re-enslave it,

Forcing it to only excrete

Paper detritus

Such as this.

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