I read it first as worrying about the machine...
but, yes, those little noises can keep a person awake..., in just such a staccato manner.
Doug
On 2013-04-23, at 1:20 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The vacuum created
> by one sound stopping
> fills almost immediately
> with the arrival
> of another noise
> of a different pitch.
> Temporary sensation
> of relief when
> a thrumming aborts
> only replaced
> by anxiety about
> the tone of the next
> that will fill
> the aural lacuna.
> Staccato tapping
> and rattling
> plays on a bed
> of insistent hums
> of varying registers.
>
> Pops and cracks,
> drones, brief beeps,
> accelerations,
> thumps, bounces,
> rattles, flat thwacks.
>
> Consciousness
> played out
> in still keys.
>
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