
Lights smear into speed. She presses against me on the subway — warm, charged. We don’t speak. Just the hum of two bodies in contact. Look at your phone and you miss it. Kill the screen and it runs through you. The spark is quiet, like circuits in the walls. Invisible, yet strong enough to burn the house down. The feed floods back. Static drowns the charge. Are you alive to the current or already a dead wire?