the persistence of a moment
captured in the top 40 hits of youth
transcribed from wave to wave to wave
for decades until digital recording mechanisms preserve the signal in all its fidelity
homogenous information then
and if we can remember some basic math
an ocean of interruptions
a noise to signal ratio that shoots to infinity
like the limit of any moment
undecipherable until originality is achieved by some software
software that is to soft and grew tumors and telomeres shrank down
until it was eating the very program the software ran off of