Nuisance/Text

Text:

the lights are beautiful

stark, square, aluminium grids

casting us in lack

of complete spectrum

teakish, geometric plates

bury us

from the waist down

clicking and tap, tap, tapping

murmuring

in voices           all day long.

the hum of VDU insect buzz

and noises from outside

whisper in the rustling paper leaves.

around the hard edges

blowing hot and cold

exists           desire

null and void

almost invisible, almost inaudible

something like laughter

ticks with the clock

in the central heated air

Still

out of the same

another voice

speaks of

curves and skin and for the inside of the mouth

makes itself heard

in the sliding pressure of fingers,

in small accidents and errors

when something slips away

or falls down on the carpet.