i'd like there to be time, 

and that the time is open 

and soft for the hands 

which like flowers take a few hours to open 

and that exquisitely dark reproductions could be cast 

of what was cast only moments ago. 

modernity

plays out on an open speaker from a bar which no longer speaks easy

stuttering, muttering to themselves, 

our idols cannot speak to us anymore. 

you want to wade from point A to point B, 

without the spaghetti strings in between 

but rather the alphabet soup.

what defines 'modernity' is readability, attractiveness, the freedom to say