You are driving and there is a song on the radio. You’ve heard it before. You haven’t heard it before. You may as well have heard it before. But static hums gently and then overtakes the signal, nearly. The song is hard to hear, buried in there somewhere. Is it the power lines that do this? The space between cities? And then something else. A faint operatic voice bleeds into the mix from another station. Or is it a Theremin? But you can’t really make it out, can’t pull it from the oscillations of the static and that incessant pop song which you now find obnoxious but do not adjust the tuner because it might mean losing that voice. This other voice haunts the pop song, which is oddly distant now and not fun at all. This other voice others the pop song. The melody is chopped up. You may not even like it. It’s all you want to hear.
January 12, 2009...2:57 am
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