necessity (for radio voice)

without the timely
split,
methodically executed,
for the trail
a trailing off even
beat, beat, beat
a bat in his cave
you'd give
everything--
years
worked
into secrets.

in the stolen offer
tardy, tired, trained
like kafka's hungry artist
made panther
now a cage
no moist walls
or womb pockets
you make a fool out of a second too long
switching a sound and
a sound
into musical interlude

this is your virtue
a necessity
to bring cock
to a screen
absent
not fickle
visible
but
not yet tuned.