Miguel Murphy
Regimen
A video-game
salve: Dead Space;
Resistance:
Fall of Man;
Heavenly
Sword.
The translation
of action to
feeling—First
Person Shooter
Narratives,
the bildungsroman
of the gaming
age: a species of
laughter—
ephemeral carnage,
courage.
I’m sick
of time.
A virus spreads;
I grip
the controller,
exterminate.
Order
take-out,
masturbate.
Like science
fiction,
my regimen
of pills
they give
the terminal.
I’ve never been
undetectable,
the latest
statistic.
Alien
mutation
invasions,
zombie
hordes.
It’s endless
ammunition.
Miguel Murphy reads “Regimen”
Miguel Murphy is most recently the author of Shoreditch, his third collection of poetry. He lives in Southern California where he teaches at Santa Monica College.