Aluminum Foil

Sometimes when it rains, I wonder if it’s static,
and my connection with the world just sucks.
Maybe my body is TV, and my mind is an antenna:
A bent-up coat hanger that once held a coat
now out of fashion, but once hip and trendy.
A cut inspired by military uniforms.
Somewhere, somewhen, bodies are piled
With epaulettes, berets, and bayonets.
The rain washes the commodity.
The coat hangers became bayonets.
Three stripes down one pant leg.
VHS tracking needs adjustment.
Acid washed brain. System Adjustment.
Enhance Resolution. Increase. Saturation.
Press the OK button.

Nicholas Boyer is a poet & short story author from Buffalo, NY. His writing aims at the emotions that many people experience in so many unique ways. He believes it impossible to capture an experience in words, but regardless continues to write for both others and himself as a therapeutic process of communicating that no one is ever alone. Other work by Nicholas can be found in Riggwelter Press.