Charley Tisch

Frozen on the step she’s busy composing a text 
Transported floated from the polished marble stair 
Through the throat of the transparent cyber wire spider web she 
Uploads stasis into the incorporeal endless digital tangle 
Welcoming into her bloodstream a ghostly infection  
Puppeteering its way along the central nervous system 
Leeching its way into the brain where it unzips the pouch  
The dopamine drools down the warm tissue 
Down each seam splitting the beating pulsating brain  
Down the sinewy cords 
Down the silky neural pathway cobweb strands  
Struck in some sort of satisfaction 
Her body remains locked as her mind 
Shifts travels with the pixels of the LED 
Eyelids stretched wide and deaf to her own tapping fingertips  
She descends toward the next stair shackled to the screen  
Blind to the world her heel hits the air above the next stair and  
Bicycles in loops as her body bag of potatoes stumbles clumsily 
Until the ball-pit absent drywall corner greets her skull with a squish pop
Message Delivered