September 24

Let’s all look ahead to the Fall

Your Second Skin

Deep in your second skin

The protoplasm brain

Provides this epidermal mind

Nervous system undercurrents

That is always flowing

In your memory voice

Without filter, restraint or abatement.

There will be no controlling

The tidal wave of self-message

It crackles, erupts

Haunts and persists

No mercy deep in this second skin

Respite or alibi.

Clearly we are not

Of this world

Our past trails behind us

As a rickety platform

For the Terrible Now.

So what just the drives this future?

That second skin you just

Stepped upon

In a heel toe goose stepping march.

We are so murdered

On a daily basis.

We only echo

In Satellite Suspects ears.

Please have your Alibi out

And ready to be scanned.

Uncollected revision 9/2/24