the devouring

all at once (circumambient & endogenous)---

365 days, 12 months, 52 weeks,

24 hours, 60 minutes, 60 seconds & then centiseconds & milliseconds etc., etc., etc.,

(you can do the math)

one wo/man with eyes peeled screaming perpetually open

in front of their prospective

screens---

hooked up,

tuned in &

the electronic stimulants being shot back at them

flicker as sporadically quick & acute as the tongue of a hydromantes

dancing, discoing, salsa-ing

atop & alongside the very retinas now fast becoming one

with the screen that they are so very close to

adhering themselves to a new destiny

a new place in the fabric of time

wherein, the devouring mechanism

sucks in

those willing to coast the wave

in which drowning is no longer an option &

the burden (and quite possible boredom) of

immortality

is brought upon their heads

10 fold.