Natalie Sargent the indifference of computer generated emotions 1. your patience is appreciated someone will be with you shortly i try to make my voice sound computer generated 2. the heat radiates like anger it is august i try to find every way to be someone else 3. i exist inside the idea that inertia is responsible for everything between your skin and the elastic around the top of your underwear 4. i let my mouth drag across your skin take off your shirt and lay down next to me look at me everything in this room is dust become dust with me 5. i have breathed my way into this new space my particles combine so nicely with your particles i press my face into your back and inhale 6. no one knows what they are doing no one is fully automated why don't computers perspire the way we do? we are full of wires and small metal pieces 7. i am a series of green lights you are sailing through the assumption of safety inside your locked apartment a large and unexpected sum of money your broken laptop screen electronic splinters 8. i have watched the idea of you cover me like kudzu the green waste of an alabama summer suffocates what is left of us