Alien Invasyndrome -v0.4- -mozu Field Sixie- 2021 • Trusted & Real

“The livestock are quiet. Not scared. Quiet. That’s worse. I saw a ewe standing on a boulder at three a.m., facing due east. Not grazing. Just… waiting. For the Mozu pattern. That’s what the old woman in the trailer calls it. ‘The Sixie.’ The sixth hour of the fourth day. The window where the air tastes like galvanized metal and lilac.”

[A sharp crackle. The mic brushes against a barbed wire fence.] Alien Invasyndrome -v0.4- -Mozu Field Sixie- 2021

[Sound of wet grass under boots. A distant, rhythmic thrumming like a refrigerator mixed with a heartbeat.] “The livestock are quiet

[The thrumming doubles in tempo. Then halts.] Alien Invasyndrome -v0.4- -Mozu Field Sixie- 2021

[Silence. Then a whisper, too close to the mic.]

“They’re not coming to us. They’re coming through us. And we’re applauding.”