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Status Interruptus<br />
The body resets during sleep,<br />
muscle memory abounds through fitful coughs,<br />
aching joints, dry-itching skin,<br />
serving notice to Mind at Rest<br />
Rogue satellites broadcast status<br />
interruptus in the arc of their course<br />
through night-stills of twittering chirps,<br />
drones of machine fan humming,<br />
chorus of death-chant crows<br />
Restful bodies lie in solace and silence<br />
cleaning filters, expunging<br />
the need for the minds’ input<br />
of the day’s disorders,<br />
its tightening grip as evidenced<br />
unwelcome in the clutch of my wrists<br />
urgently held in my plaintive palms<br />
reacting to the distorted playback<br />
of looped invasive dreams<br />
In halves unfold time loops,<br />
in and out the quirks and fits,<br />
unwilling and unable to fall gracefully<br />
into the limited and limitless embrace<br />
of total surrender to the mercy of the alarm<br />
residing in a small compact computerized appendage<br />
that greets and accompanies,<br />
that fixes the cycle<br />
Rest Impediments<br />
The voice is time draining<br />
its remains through caustic<br />
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