When Giza Speaks

When Giza Speaks


by Sam Flot 2011

You can’t videotape the apocalypse or

Attempt to skate the acropolis

In any sense of verdant truancy or

Declining sensitivity

For the flowing electricity

Inside the arms holding

The camera’s obscured lens

Up to the trending topics

Of the topical moment

On top of us and

When Giza speaks

Greenwich Mean time listens

Revo?

She’ll be comin’ around the pyramid

When she comes wearing

Clothes of the people and

Why wonder if the looming urgency

Is worth the currency you convert it into? 

The whole thing fits inside your front pocket or

If strobe lights make it hard to fake a comparable offshoot

You can videotape a mirror ball

Reflecting humanity in a few sentences of giberrish

Counting cultural references and certain pertainings

To downtown drains and surroundings

All worked up into blatherous lathers and

Too connected to

Step away from the device, please,

Step away from the device

Your network has been shut down

Step away from the device

2.23.11

SAM FLOT!