Influencer from Space Junk by Sam Lou Talbot

INFLUENCER

Glowing in that dress, in your glowing, glowing shoes. You could have taken off. You could have flown around the world in those shoes, they were buoyant, buoyant, oceans, oceans. Seven oceans. Would have had you swim, swim across seven oceans. Oceans, they were so buoyant and red. You would have glowed in the dark. Ship navigation systems would have seen you from seven thousand miles away. They would have known you by your glow, your angelic glow. Glowing white in your red shoes on the seventh ocean on the seventh day. You stepped into it. And I curled my hand around you. Asked you what you wanted to do that day. It was snowing outside. With limited options. You said you wanted to ride. We took a sleigh, went to Sainsbury’s. Did a little bit of shopping. Came back. Then you said you wanted to take over the world. I asked you if you wanted a cup of tea first. Then we read “Kafka and his Precursors” by Borges. Talked a little bit about Influencers and attraction. Influencers. Where’s the cutlery? Can you remember when we talked about the cutlery in Campo St. Leo. It was the first time we spoke. Can you remember? When the bells slow and the rhythm changes slightly and I wonder what you’re doing. How can it be that two minds can get connected like that? (Entwined.) “We’re connected” you said, and I thought Oh, here we go again. These virtual intimacies. The way that we insinuate and insinuate. I love you. I love you. I love, you. You, I love. I love, you.)

• Alternative
• counterculture
• folk
• indie
• post-punk
• singer-songwriter
• Glasgow