I Am an Engine

by Harris Coverley

I am an engine

White with heat

Pistons lubed

With blood and jism

Pumping-pumping-pumping

Steaming

Quietly

Like the flow of a hidden stream

 

I am an engine

Buried deep beneath

Dirt and crap and a hard
blackness

—cased in—

The hidden stream

Of power

And force

And chug and chug and chug

BOOM

 

I am an engine

My own light

In my own realm

Destined to fuck my way

Up to the surface

 

I am an engine

All parts fatigued by years of
neglect

Waiting to be replaced

Or waiting for a reprieve

 

I am

An

Engine

 

Engine

 

ENGINE

 

ENGINE

 

ENGINE

 

ENGINE

 

ENGINE

 

ENGINE

 

YES

 

NO

 

ONCE

 

CHRIST

 

DAMN

 

[system down]

 

[awaiting input]