Abira Kannan
Tapes are the comrades to simplicity.
cassette click.
Margherita pizzas our incense.
indeed a mouldy remnant of earlier times
but the only place left to see long gone family
like mufasa from the lion king.
an era of swiping
meaning karate hits we blocked from cousins
who are now blocked from Facebook
but talking about finding love,
renting Casablanca taught us it was
soul connection than shallow attraction.
the thing about tapes.
always picking up from the exact place left off.
unlike unfinished sentences that
never broke free from our mouths.
as they become a faded fragment of this century
they chant
‘if simplicity is life
tapes are the comrades to simplicity.’
