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out of phase
each lifeform, each object
slipped away
fish he didn't recognize
swam in one wall
and out the other
siphonophores, trailing
their strings of bells
drifted through silent
occasionally, someone screamed
his desk bobbed upward
no, he was sinking
down through accouno
mailroom, cubicle farms
he saw few people
and those ignored him
continued typing eating
sleeping sweeping fucking
broom closet basement hard-packed
soil things dimmed, but he still
felt nothing heard only
the blood pounding in his ears
wonderin
where would this end?


the rocks grew red brighter
yellow white
then, very briefly
feeling came back