With the smirk of a soulless sociopath, the metronome spreads vicious libels against the sanity of protoplasmic cadences.
*
The metronome is a jealous god. Its binary language of tick and tock aspires to eloquent command. Other oscillators make no such pretense to authority. Windshield wipers would consider you a feckless fool for paying the least bit of attention to them. The clock pendulum clacks and scolds, Don’t listen to me, don’t look at me! Look at the face, look at the hands!
*
The metronome would have you believe the world is uninhabitable—Arctic and Antarctic Poles pinioning a globe of vacant seas and sterile wastelands. But poles are there to be conquered; worlds are here to be lived.
*
The metronome is a salesman always closing, garrulously thrusting paperwork at you marked with checks and highlights showing where to sign and initial in triplicate, and you’ve made the deal before you know it, and you don’t have time to breathe until you’re finished, and you’ve got no idea what you bought or what it cost.
*
“Without Contraries is no progression.” The metronome is the boot-lick ass-wipe stooge-tool lackey of the bourgeois status quo denying opposites and movement. Every beat is alike, it tells us; moments between beats mean nothing. Pay no heed to such reactionary sophistries. Each moment is an era seized between horned dilemmas, an empire to be vaporized by a thunderclap of history.
*
Ah, you lovers—have nothing to do with this machine. What need have you for some technocratic busybody to synchronize your souls? You are two melodies in separate scores, polyrhythmic and cacophonic clusters when played simultaneously under the glare of a bare light bulb or the glow of a middling yellow star, but that nevertheless harmonize sweetly in the dark.
