A line from Quentin Crisp

She wondered what it was 
like to claw her way from 
being a printed mesh fabri-
cation, designed exclusively 

in-house & based only on one's 
own experience. She brought it
to the table to create distance, to
take the joke on herself as a way

to self-soothe. Pink noise is way
deeper than white noise, a sonic
hue that often only comes down
on the side of the outcast. The old

movie projector hums in the back-
ground like a dialysis machine 
without the beeps. Ambient noise
in the ICU. She closes her eyes.