'obviously we will ensure that this one is not eaten by ants' I add during a lull in the adoption interview

light bends around her she prepares for The Jolt, she winks once as she stops being here and starts being there

just once, when I'm being chased on foot by a cop through the streets of New York, I'd like to choose an alley to run down that doesn't end with a high chain link fence that I desperately try & climb but the cop grabs my clothes, pulls me back down & throws me into some trashbags

the scorched bones of Icarus fall into the sea in front of us, the children ask for an ice cream, bored

it's imprisoned five miles under the mountain for good reason, but when it sings, I dream of opening the blast doors, just a fraction

ritual murder on the Vatican moonbase, rumours of an angel seen on the Sea of Tranquility, Earth blue & silent, just static on the comlink

the dark glass pyramid is a great child minder, look! the kids haven't moved all day, eyes blank, palms facing up, no I can't turn it off

the little Microsoft paperclip guy only wanted to help, we forget that. if only we could forget that night, burying him alive in the desert.