Vis-à-Vish.

READING

History
pinned
to cream scene
subject
to sterile slip
of digital time:
Newton to Putin
sold out like so many
school galas
BBQ meat,
afterthought to
after hours audience.

Murmurs rise
in clouds of tar
of arsenic
Clouds pattern
in the shape of speech
Conversations
held captive
in cylinders
twist
off into the
breath of opinion
inhaling it.

You stand awkwardly
We pull applause from our sleeves.