Binary Copulation
The city lights up like a
million candles
She stands on fire escape
gazing the thousand mile stare
Looking across the ocean of
seething humanity
She sees circle of life in
the crawling motion of traffic
The tall buildings stand
erect against the vault of heaven
Each building a cell in the
body of the city
Cars the corpuscles flowing
into nothingness
Clouds roll overhead
Dark shadows in the phantom
sodium light
The heat presses into her
body with lazy pleasure
Her heart vibrates with
energy fields buzzing all around her
The horns blare into the
apocryphal New Jerusalem
Misty eyed by the illusion of
peace
She sighs into the void of
space
The gaping holes in the
fabric of life
The psychic chasms separating
our lives
Fade in importance
With the dawn of the
cybernetic matrix
Uniting all humankind in the
engine of progress
The machinery of the night
humming in endless revolutions
Centripetal forces collecting
us into indivisible atoms
Nuclear reactions brewing in
the heart of humankind
Till exploding in arcs of
burning light
The human spirit no longer
contained
Filling the spaces with love
energy
She waits for the rebirth of
wonder
Watching the tired city fall
into rhythms of slumber
Thinking till her thoughts
slow to a crawl
She looks down at the people
Pulsing in and out of the bar
below
Seeing their drunken apathy
Reflected in their wobbly
gait
Thinking she could be playing
the game
Numbing her pain with elixir
Jazz music floats upward
across her weary body
Igniting her soul with dreams
of annihilating bliss
She imagines the fever of
dancing with sweaty bodies
The scent of passion bursting
her into flames
Writhing in lover’s arms
Fiery kisses blessing her
body
Anointed by intimate touches
Baptized into the bestial
breed
Civilization dissolving in a
burst of flame
Leaving only untamed
wilderness of desire
As she glides into her bed
She falls like an angel
Into her inner sea
Dawn coming with slow
insistence
She dresses appealingly with feminine
flourishes
Like a tributary she flows
into the river of traffic
Merging into the engine of
history
Sacred and profane fused
She enters the factory of
information
Cathode ray tubes glowing
with numbers
Lapsing into her seat
Papers strewn across desk
Her face glows in trance
Fingers dancing across
keyboard
Conceiving electric dreams
In binary copulation
