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Wisconsin, Yr So Brutalist

The walk into campus
was far too angular

it was exceedingly difficult
to find the building entrance

β€œHave you ever been in a sensory deprivation tank1”
asked Ann from Wisconsin Public Radio


Light was vacuumed by the brute symmetry
of the Department of Social Sciences building

I want to say things that are real, Ann
to find a fundament beyond subtext
but this building will not allow it
this building talks but doesn’t listen

(I fight the almost carnal desire to jaywalk)

No, Ann, I’ve never been in a sensory deprivation tank
but I can imagine it

like a farmer in a database

I can imagine it

1Ref#: Altered States.