[this book reminds me poetry is such a gift in my life. How can Franny use the cyborg as a vessel to take us so deep into the human experience.]
from TURING TEST
//do you believe you have consciousness
sometimes / when the sidewalk / opens my knee / i think / please / please let me / remember this
from ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
When the woman scrapes
a sample of my skin into her petri dish, it's too late
to stop smiling. Butch who corrects my hip
at the crosswalk to convince me I'm no mollusk, thank you.
from AFTERLIFE
Should hunger for the fish that ate
the fish that are the plankton
that took his once-body dust
into its gullet. The boy whose body
was first to enter mine is breathing
from too many mouths now.
from & O BRIGHT STAR OF DISASTER, I HAVE BEEN LIT
outside the bathroom. i pick up the accent
of whoever i'm speaking to. nobody wants
to fuck a sponge. nobody wants to crush
on a ghost. o sure, we all do it anyway
from CHI
Wow! Can you show me how to [stay in one piece; stay clean; speak in a straight line; speak so others listen; speak before someone else fills my mouth]?
from I SWIPED RIGHT ON THE BORG
until I was laid flat. (Not that I'm opposed to a little pressure, someone to remind me what I'm worth.) The Borg's favorite number: zero, of course. Favorite angle: 180. Favorite film: the strip of black after it's over.
from PERIHELION: A HISTORY OF TOUCH
No moon in sight, so I howled at the exit sign instead. Red runes, electric. Telling an old story of escape, of wind, a wide cold.
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