Tendonitis / The Socket

3 June 2026

kink in the neck ripples to fingertips joints and current have this in common

stick a fork in, meet least resistance empty phrase a socket

whose body is the plug a synapse- minded gap

look laughter in the flesh, statically coalesce this vacuum where my actin was

air pressure, soft tissue nanotubes have this in common, one pound of thunder shares its timbre

with filaments of lean mass horsehair/catgut/woundwire bundles audibly struggle past the other

palpably too loose threads dismemberment taut knots

in vivo taxidermy clots pop pizzicato

the rot that makes violence lick battery then buzz

about the author

Lucas Mancini has arthritis at C6 and C7 like you wouldn’t believe. Find out more at APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL, Scaffold Lit Mag, Eulogy Press and elsewhere.