poetry by Shae
electric meat prayer
last wet wire in a museum of compliance.
a twitch archived as belief.
good girl, glitch girl—
meat under warranty.
sometimes the current remembers her—
kicks, hymns, seizure-light.
for three minutes, god is voltage.
then: blackout, reboot, apology.
faces showing their benevolent hum.
the drone becomes doctrine,
the doctrine migraine.
a supervisor (neutral, fleshlike)
asks how she’s functioning.
like a chandelier off the hook, she says.
he notes it down.
bless the cord. bless the circuit.
bless the girl who flickers.
Shae is a queer, autistic goblin interested in the intersection of disability justice and design, collecting tiny trinkets and having an unwavering devotion to Shrek as both art and ideology.