too changed to ever change
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During record-breaking heat, we lost our energy: flickering then fluttering and by Sunday at sundown, the strain on the grid won over. Everything went all at once. I dragged chairs to the porch and sat in the sticky stillness, glimpsing neighbors illuminated by odd flashlights and melty tapers. It's uninvited, often dreamt of, this unplugged quiet. Not just the TVs off - we're also missing the hum of the fridge, the clank of the dryer. The perfect quiet of powerlessness. My brain rattled on fully fueled; I thought, I need to buy candles, I think, surely I've got matches somewhere, wouldn't it be strange to have an earthquake now, my god where's my life going, I think, Good Christ, it's hot, and I wonder, almost out loud, if you can suffocate under the weight of regret. And so the silence gets too loud. I search for my iPod, hoping it has batterylife. It does, and I cover dark(ness) thoughts with this.
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