work I've done
to steer
well away from the
hazards inside,
I've begun to feel
I'm on a video call
with the business-
like man
in the mirror.
It's the way everything
he displays to me
looks exactly
the same as it
ought to, only
backwards.
And always,
how there's
weird bits
of distortion
and delay
between
every kind
word that I think
I am speaking—
and all that I
hear myself say.
