Under the Wire

you’re going to need a bigger boat
for such evasive quarry
in the manual of cyborgs
it’s all in a page
after the chapter called “expectations”
nickel and diming your way
through the small talk menu
press one for weather; two for news
in the depths of this dialogue
when you thought it was safe
to come out as a voyeur
no one wants to show you their stuff
i’m a reasonable man
get off my ass