Intrathecal Pump
Let's workshop this poem about a people in need of extreme stimulation to cope with their situation, which they get personalized through pain-pump screens that only make them more sensitive to despair
Intrathecal Pump The tabloids that devoured straightlaced newspapers decades ago by prioritizing shock would seem too prissy— too tamed by reality—for us today, hyperalgesic and hooked on tailor-made jolts from despair over death and life mainlined with every thumb flick.