The trainer
told us the important
thing, when
working with
optical
fiber cable, was that you must
never,
ever, under no circumstances
whatsoever,
touch your fingers
to your
eyes – those tiny shards can
slide so
easily through the cornea,
will never
show up on any x-ray,
guaranteeing
a lifetime of torment
and
impaired vision.
The liars.
The mean, selfish bastards.
Hoarding
the secret to themselves.
But I
foiled them, stuck my fiber-coated
index
finger right into my orb
and opened
myself up to a world
of rainbow
colors and spectra you
couldn’t
even begin to imagine.
With a
broadband connection to eternity,
I close my
physical eyes and let the data
strut its
stuff along the coiled length
of my
super-attenuated optic nerves.
(Originally appeared in Crack the Spine)
