white noise

Bryan Ferry

White Noise
Bryan Ferry
2025
It s too hot to run
Better to lie in wait
Cool water from the machine
and at the press of a button
tapes from home
In a week I submit fifty articles
and where are they now?
Adrift
That s all my nights fractured
with a foreign pulse
The kick of adrenaline
Limitless breath mints

To all my students I say the same
Nothing is planned but things happen
Stories write themselves
and if it doesn t fit
It never will

The fan s plugged in
I m tired
in a collar again
With the click push of a pencil
I ve erased seasonal breaks
Winter is slimmer
There s the unaddressed lust
for a long weekend that I ll pause over
Sleep
Says the dog
Gnawing at the back pages of today s paper
Set her on a room of experts in their field
and she will find the duds

The river s low
and it s so early the billboards are still lit
Bins are piled high with bags from other bins
There s a bleed
I turn in the bed
We re going to have to start
tightening the taps
Tying up the live wires
and cutting the white noise out