SWITCH OFF
by Sarah Nichols
I had a series of mini breakdowns:
a brand-new face. Huge, huge empires.
A synthesizer.
All of this stuff.
Just shut down. Be there
but just shut down. Walk past this arena.
Walk past this thing, this music.
Listen.
SOURCE: Thom Yorke interview by Daniel Craig, Interview magazine (July 2013).
PHOTO: Thom Yorke by Craig McDean, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: I’m an ardent Radiohead fan, and a few years ago, I saw an interview with Thom Yorke on YouTube. He was dismissive of stupid questions, ferociously intelligent, and gave nothing away. Like his music, he made demands. The Interview magazine interview finds him in a more giving vein, and I wanted to see what I could do with it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sarah Nichols is a writer and artist living in Connecticut. Her chapbook, The Country of No, was published in 2012, and her poem “The Mirror” appeared in the Silver Birch Press Noir Erasure Poetry Anthology (December 2013). Her work has also appeared in Found Poetry Review, Right Hand Pointing, and MiPoesias.
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