Erica Western Geiger Counter - Emperor X

With shaking hands

She held the coinage

Of a long-dead nation-state

It fell absorbed

Into the enclave

When we walked away

She went to sleep

Next to a boy

She scaled the walls

She learned to skate

She chiseled patterns inthe concrete

She brought shielding down

Hold my hand

Grow my skin

Slow my pulse rate

Ignore the sound of fire alarms

May we never hit that force field

Hold me up

Long enough

To feel the tractor beam

Out by the cobalt belt she ran

Calmed the toxic cutlery

Taking out

The Matthews Bridge

Was not an option for her

She had no para chute

No transit pass

No node display

Instead she broke into the garage

Procured a stolen Segway

And killed the trees

That she the retail grove

Hold my hands

Hold me down

While my limbs shake

We stayed awake

To watch the bloom

Of algae shudder and fluoresce

And foam and roll

While Coast Control

Laid down a substrate

I hung the latch key on your arm

Got up real quietly

And left

To find a base

To click force-quit

Collect and translate in batch

To non-compete

To acquiesce

To steal the seeds from incubation

To sprint back home

Return to bed correctly

And get breathed on

And get breathed on

And get breathed on