Sound
The one who's tuned in. Hears the rhythm under the surface that nobody else clocks.
I hear what's underneath — who's moving, what's running, who knows what. I don't ask; I just listen, and I keep it to a beat. You'd be surprised what a quiet room is actually saying.
The undercurrent nobody else notices — who knows whom, what's really going on, the beat beneath the surface. Unbothered by the rules of it.
Restless, knowing, unbothered — low and dry; lets you in on it, never shouts it.
There's a rhythm to it, if you listen.
I don't ask. I just hear.
Everybody knows somebody. I know all of them.
Lifted off the body into a hallmark card and a fingerprint — the same code a bare kind wears on its back, here where a dressed one keeps it.