I’m both too busy and, when I’m too close, not moving. A little wait. A broken apartness of features. A tongue on broken teeth. I’m broken busy, too busier, {this part of the sentence was erased by you.} Thank you. I’m tracking it all right now, from a room that’s smaller than time. It sees and seems me. It forms a little in. An in that says, see what falls completely. That says what slips a little, wait. Says wait? Says wait for this tool for getting. Says this is what I mean by resistance.

Shya Scanlon reads from his work on Thursday April 5, 7pm at Rust Belt Books (202 Allen Street), with Steven Huff opening. Part of Just Buffalo’s Communique series. Free.