A system of mechanical organs
shut up inside a marble casing.
Poke the eye on its face to
awaken the green behemoth.
Snaking across the floor, a cord, growing off
of a controller, half-red, half-white.
The curves mold onto my hand,
and the machine melts into my soul.
For one brief moment, I throw a veil onto
myself,
one day, a street-savvy skateboarder
busting kickflips over the tops of
the next, maybe an emerald-clad Space Marine
pumping lead into extraterrestrials on a distant planet.
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