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Drifting – pain – autumn’s cool air. People surround city streets, the majestic banks of nobody, glass towers, palaces of low-frequency shudder. Tensile tear of sharp metal scales of black, bleak, black, mumbling jets. I hear one pass now, every night, every night since they took the cranes so near and yet so far I thought it would hit my house during the windstorms, if my house didn’t hit it first.
Implanted lies, bullshit on a chip. I slit my flesh deep, probed with the cutters for any subdermal circuitry. Nothing.
Watch me play all 28 instruments with one button. Am I a musician? It’s all on ROM. Beethoven’s 9th. But I pushed the button. I did. I’m the musician.
It’s Antarctica, but you’ll have a good coat and some gloves, so don’t worry, -60F will feel like a cool summer breeze in Arkansas. No, you don’t have to exchange your money. The strip bars, McDonald’s, and Gap stores all take US cash. And American Express. No Discover, though.
And in Iraq, we use Internet Explorer. Check out our new website, where you can click Saddam Hussein’s face to hear the sounds of Scud missiles being launched at your IP number.