ODE TO MY VIBRATORby Franny Choi
magic bullet. buzz/kill
coin-op lover’s needly plead.
steel vibrato. dryspell/caster.
clitoral cheat code when
fleshfingers tire of my failed
tulip’s mess & mess.
tiny steel tycoon. metal
mouseheart. incoming
call: please hold.
swarmsong in the sheets
under sticky sweat &pulse/
pulp/ dependable chord
steady pharynx x x
redacting human error.
slow piston. press: little fury
in motion. frantic focus.
close my eyes/ thigh tense:
present. think: jawcrack
think: it’s my own lightning
driving the engine.
it’s a closed circuit.
buzzing finger on budding
sex/ worker bee/ building
a cyborg hivemind an
overstimulus cycle
fembot feedback loop
telling this fleshmachine
its own origin story again
&again &again
magic bullet. buzz/kill
coin-op lover’s needly plead.
steel vibrato. dryspell/caster.
clitoral cheat code when
fleshfingers tire of my failed
tulip’s mess & mess.
tiny steel tycoon. metal
mouseheart. incoming
call: please hold.
swarmsong in the sheets
under sticky sweat &pulse/
pulp/ dependable chord
steady pharynx x x
redacting human error.
slow piston. press: little fury
in motion. frantic focus.
close my eyes/ thigh tense:
present. think: jawcrack
think: it’s my own lightning
driving the engine.
it’s a closed circuit.
buzzing finger on budding
sex/ worker bee/ building
a cyborg hivemind an
overstimulus cycle
fembot feedback loop
telling this fleshmachine
its own origin story again
&again &again
So usually in Choi's work you can find a deeper meaning. Whether about her views in society by her own personal accounts, or satire on the objectification of women. But here I don't seem to find a shift in the work. To me this poem seems to be metaphors for vibrators and what they do. Can you find a deeper meaning??