ABORT RETRY FAIL
for Fred Shafer
A suction of rotors squeezing
micron-thin particles
Erasure of emotion
to write again
The last man at the drugstore counter
when they stop serving the special forever
Unsold the idea sucks
all the blood out of the body
One vast peasantry planting
seeds in silicon
Falling forward toward
our expiration date
Mission-critical hardware
suffers in such conditions
Whether by retrorocket or retrovirus
the clock ticks backward
The last woman communicating
a disease: vengeance of the vanquished