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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Smoke Detector


Pure attention to the trio of beeps, every fifteen

seconds, from the hall outside your apartment.


Your growing hatred, your judgment toward

whom, the lazy neighbors? the super?


The battery is your soul, dying. The fire

is the fear of fire at the end of this racket.





5 comments:

  1. The battery is your soul--fav line :)

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  2. The fire / is the fear of fire

    nice.

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  3. Thanks guys... It's a short sketch. Meaning: shit's thin.

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  4. I like the premise...meaning the constant and difficult machine sound...and the corresponding emotion it unleashes...

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  5. I like the implicit irony of it...the irrepressible frustration of the experience, and yet the hesitation to shut it out/off, since, after all, "the battery is your soul, dying."

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