Poetry

Erasure

I have never heard of the Commander
before his repeated threats of violence against me.

“I am ParkourDude91.”
“If you think I’m the type of person to let anything go, you don’t know me.”

NV, 1979

when we would play Space Invaders,
we would pretend we were killing hegemony

Play Again

Play again until the pieces fill
every hungry threshold

Five Erasures from ‘Mastering Pac-Man’

The ever-present monsters / soon catch up and A MAN / slowly disappears as the machine utters / a whine another MAN / appears the process repeats