THING

a bad thing of shapes and barbs 
hollow and strong and reaching
motorised and automatic
has 
hungry carpet hooks 

they latch into 

for
example

1000 awful newspaper headlines 
and stuff my head with their screaming

the bad thing
is a shadow of arms 
silent 
busy

they
magnify slender possible doom into biblical certainty
CREATE disaster from a hiccup
and

for 
example

destroy your perception of your ability to cope
in
whirling discs of accelerating steel
and 
makes you count the dark rainbows in the filings

forever