Obscenity
			
			
			the exhausted world pays
			
four dollars, three nickels & a
			dime
			
to see ejaculation videos:
			
streaming HD, hardcore POV
			
guaranteed to be STD free
			
no sores on these---boys!
			
it’s enough to pull your hair
			
			
			Coda:
			
			
			There is a woman and it is not that
			she wanted it,
			
but she lives alone, no family,
			friends, not even a cat.
			
And Ψ doesn’t know her, until one
			night last week
			
they connect in a chatroom.
			
                 
			                  Ψ tells
			her about the summer
			
his grandmother planted currents,
			strawberries—fruit easy to find.
			
He tells her about New God—the
			monster in his closet—
			
how his doctors say, “psychosis,”
			but he’s real and he writes it.
			
She believes Ψ and tells him,
			without an apostrophe,
			
about her ex-husband, a jukebox bar
			named Lupos, C-7
			
was “Surrender.” She tells him
			sometimes the power goes out,
			
but she hopes it wont tonight. And
			as a little girl
			
she cut lopsided bangs in her hair,
			cause her mother told her not to.
			
			
			They chat until sleep gives up on
			them, 
			
about dancing, books from high
			school, 
			
many typos. Should they exchange
			pictures? 
			
No its late. Tomorrow, theyll meet
			here again.
			
                                    But she doesn’t.
			Nor the next day. So Ψ
			
invents a story, she had a heart
			attack. He was a minute 
			
late and she had a heart attack. The
			police will find her
			
in two days, slumped over, her
			computer’s cursor:
			
			
			
			blinking, blinking
			
			
			
			Michael Fisher