hartbreaker raze so maybe some dust embedded itself beneath this white frame held in place by metal hooks at the keyboard's base. maybe a switch is on its way out. maybe there's a crack in the motherboard. or maybe the fifth letter of the alphabet has a twisted sense of humour. over the last few weeks, this one specific key is sometimes a little stubborn and slow to respond. an e goes missing, and hope becomes the leap it's always been. a vine becomes a vehicle identification number or the product of a tryst between french-speaking fermented grapes. and the most important part of you loses a letter and becomes a male deer in its fifth year. i too was a hoofed ruminant mammal once, but the four chambers of my stomach sculpted themselves into ventricles and atria. now i'm waiting for that temperamental letter to start sticking and repeating so i can turn my voice to tocsin and shake you from the shelter of the silence you've been sleeping in. 220205 what's it to you? who go blather from