By Stephanie Whited

Stephanie Whited grew up in Kansas and Tennessee. Since receiving her BA in Psychology from NYU (’05), she has acted in commercials and music videos, modeled in print and on the runway, and become a licensed NY real estate salesperson. She maintains a health blog at toremember.wordpress.com and her articles have appeared at NewsTarget.com. She likes writing poetry more than most of the aformentioned activities, though she enjoys them very much as well.

RISKING THE BATTERY

surge protector hook up shook up and bypassed straight to the outlet at logic’s upheaval to sacrifice security for a higher rate of retrieval, buying the power sight unseen– is it safe, is it clean? the generator gleans every cell for total objectification… warning bells drown out by praises of connection signaling perfection though a wall still subsides, separates, divides. the fuse might blow in a dignified sublimation, cremation… scattering sparks of anticipation, elation, total emancipation…

YES, WE ARE CONNECTED

connected? when I turn my head right before I know you’ll look and you see a window to me? no, you see, I say our relation is fixed! no, i do not take responsibility, because we are both an equal part of a + b = c where a is you, and b is me, and c is what we become from one another or what we take away (i from you, you from me) on our way to solvent, or solve, or possibly dissolve, to see what we can make out of unequal charges. but, if we both hold…