robot

Moved aside -when some,
cranked up robot,
stuck on convictions of the past
pushed through.

Nov 24, 2019 

Tick -tock.

Quiet here, dead quiet.
Only the humming
from the jumble of cables:
my umbilical cord.
and -piersing it, is-
the old clock on the wall
Ticking.

Dec 29, 2018.

is it?

Is it learning if every word
added to vocabulary
comes with more reasons
not to speak?