These are common devices:
chains and pulleys and latches and knobs.
These are common urges:
sex, fear, hate, lust, negligence.
further from this,
we find ourselves
in need.
these are the skills we cultivate.
this is the yield.
to be sold and sold and sold to;
beyond this we are nothing.
after the things that move the machine
and the things that keep us yearning
is a dissappointment in the accumulation:
in the whispered generations of the perpetually new
home of material hope
of unearned millions
and a sixteenth minute in the lights
see me arrive empty
into your outstretched hands