This Time - Doughboys on the Wire
It's all repeated And so are we: The Lord G-d brings us out of Egypt. This isn’t the first time we’ve done this, you know. Once again, we've paired the wires And sparked awareness. We were messing around with the radio Trying to make it work better, But the wires connected in unexpected ways. You and I both hid as best as we could While voices came through electricity Not from a planchet gliding along a board But instead through tubes and wires Like troops from Cape Helles. Their forceful electric glow Threw echoes into this place and Down into the deep, hungry well. It consumed shadows And swallowed us whole. We heard the radio-sounds clang Along the circular walls. Skipping centrifugally, They echoed endlessly into the fabled Multiverse. Their sound moved down like on rungs of the ladder, And the effects Stretched from the ...