Listen to Elias Canetti

Are you a crowd

— are you a hunting pack — are you a domestication plasma,

half machine-half skin production, are you a punishment-love

hypnosis, are you a Segmenter without eyes or heart or blood,

are you the remoteness that is all we know now, are you the

barcode of humans at so many gates, checking-in, interrogated,

zapped by desolation at every turn, are you the Symbol-maker of

detachment, are you the finger exercises taught to monkeys, are

you the follower of “the killers are always the powerful,” are you

the Force-eater

somewhere in there

there is change — Change-speakers

Change-churners even in the tiniest things

— a falling leaf