SYNTHETICS
after Alfredo Giuliani
SYNTHETICS
after Alfredo Giuliani
Twilight for example dribbles through
the windows of the smoky pub
spattering plastic beer ads, mixing with neon.
I’m stuffed in a booth. I watch a passing smile
dissolve through the door in a gust of rain. Cars pass
in splatters. Sentences and pictures for example
intersperse in the brain. Nobody’s sure if love
is chemical, electrical, glandular, pharmaceutical.
The city for example is a maze of neurons without synapses,
complex synthetics without formulae, a glossary
without definitions, aphasia in marble and concrete.
Newspapers disrupt the world. Diagnosis
for example, synthesis; edits, prescriptions…
sex, death, soul, consciousness merely for example
matters of what dosage. The eyes clamp shut
from synthesizing too much information.