There we are in perfect purgatorial space
and always have been caught in the whirl
of technological vortex so long & ever since
I was born radio always playing somewhere

In the distant background there still was a
vision, a vision a-visioning you could see it
and then there it sits right in very middle
of the room so suddenly just the same every

One everyman every time that you turned
around it was droning on long before they
got drones to do the droning ever constant
a device devising (it seems) something else.

 

James Van Looy has been a fixture in Boston’s poetry venues since the 1970s. He is a member of Cosmic Spelunker Theater and has run poetry workshops for Boston area homeless people at Pine Street Inn and St. Francis House since 1992. Van Looy leads the Labyrinth Creative Movement Workshop, which his Labyrinth titled poems are based on. His work appears weekly in Oddball Magazine.