Static

Static- Ben Turner (Brighton High School, Eleventh Grade)

Phil looks old for his age.

He is asleep by 9:30.

The fabric inside of his jacket pockets is wearing thin.

He reads at a second grade level.

Excepting only the most vital of possessions his house is empty.

He keeps an empty mint tin in his right pocket.

An undisturbed plate of milk sits on his porch.

Phil spends most of his time chopping breaking dragging hauling cramming burning hundreds of

pounds of wet and moppy softwoods harvested from the subcutaneous remains of a sick, red,

young, forest.

Phil is a lighthouse keeper.

His ocean is static.