In virtual reality
my son told me
you can now move a ball
with your mind
A helmet with electrodes
gathered the waves
An experimental subject
gradually learned
A digital exoskeleton
slowly adapted
In a matrix within the Matrix
a sphere rose and fell
In a dream I tele the lights on and off
by focusing
my head
A wink of radiance reflects from a puddle,
blings through the slits
of my eyes
A ripple appears: an ocean echoes
as something falls at random from nowhere
as someone’s roof
chaotically drips
Open an eye at the surface
and think in the imperative voice
sync your mind to a ball
rethink a cafe to contain a Pokemon
hyperlink your thoughts to a dream
blink on and off the lights
While I worked on this,
gravity waves were detected
I lit a candle
for a friend in rehab
He had to crash because this, this matrix, is
our world
Before it rises, it bottoms
That is its nature
He had to deep
cycle the battery
In this world the next the last
in dreams we all can fly
Neuroscience I expect
knows why
I and eye are still
at the water’s rim
From here we can’t see far
so the world looks flat and straight
The ocean has no curvature, the arrow
no parabola
In India by focusing the mind
a yogi stopped
a train
In Jamaica by touching it with his staff
an obeah started
an engine
I didn’t add
to my database
the unreliable sources
Two black holes a billion years ago
slammed, are slamming, slam together
To feel space shift
we need a long long laser
When the black hole crash tsunami
finally touches the shore
it’s so nothing it has no anything
until another nothing asks
A fine coherent beam
of nothing
The laser twitches as the ripple passes
From A coat of ashes